Table of Contents
Tables, Figures, and Maps
Introduction
Structural Changes in the Workforce of Colonial Korea
Rural Exodus: The Shift to the Nonagricultural Sector
South to North Regional Migration and Urbanization
Overseas Migration to Manchurian and Japanese Labor Markets
The Labor Market Structure of Colonial Korea
The Labor Policy of the Japanese Colonial Government
Labor-Management Relations in the Onoda Sunghori Factory
The Cement Industry and Colonial Development
Labor Relations in the Onoda Sunghori Factory
Social Hierarchy in the Colonial Factory: A Collective Drama
Labor Turnover
Wages and Other Forms of Compensation
Labor Responses
Growth of a Factory Town: Sungho up
The War and Korean Workers: Disintegration of the Colonial System
Wartime Changes in the Colonial Labor Force
War and the Sunghori Workers
Workers in Liberated Korea: The Onoda Samch'ok Factory
The Onoda Samch'ok Factory in 1945
From Self-Governing Council to Government Management
Samch'ok Cement as a Government Enterprise
The Privatization of Samch'ok Cement
Inauguration and Success of the Tongyang Cement Company
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index