Author(s): Yunshik Chang
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 384
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 9
Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction: Korea's twentieth century transformation......Page 16
Part I The agrarian transformation......Page 46
1 Neither "sprouts" nor "offspring": The agrarian roots of Korean capitalism......Page 48
2 Agricultural cooperative development and change: A window on South Korea's agrarian transformation......Page 79
Part II Business and industrial transformations......Page 102
3 Causes, consequences, relevance: Korea's industrialization......Page 104
4 Transformations in Korean capitalism: A case study of the Hyundai Business Group......Page 121
5 What makes us great: Chaebol development, labor practices, and managerial ideology......Page 153
Part III Transformations in the state......Page 168
6 Development without democracy: The political economy of US-South Korea relations, 1958-1961......Page 170
7 Cut from the same cloth: Bureaucracies and rulers in South Korea, 1948-1979......Page 201
Part IV Transforming culture and ideology......Page 234
8 Confucianism, democracy, and the individual in Korean modernization......Page 236
9 Monumental histories: Manliness, the military, and the War Memorial......Page 260
10 Modernization theory, ideology, and economic success: Putting Korea's development in comparative perspective......Page 282
Part V Social transformations: Labor, women, and the family......Page 304
11 Modernization, gender roles, and marriage behavior in South Korea......Page 306
12 Women's incorporation into the urban economy of South Korea......Page 325
Conclusion: South Korea: in pursuit of modernity......Page 360
Index......Page 389
