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Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea
Jin-Kyung Lee
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Description for Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; DSB; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Service Economies presents an alternative narrative of South Korean modernity by examining how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Korea's changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a subempire.
Making surprising and revelatory connections, Jin-kyung Lee analyzes South Korean military labor in the Vietnam War, domestic female sex workers, South Korean prostitution for U.S. troops, and immigrant/migrant labor from Asia in contemporary South Korea. Foregrounding gender, sexuality, and race, Lee reimagines the South Korean economic "miracle" as a global and regional articulation of industrial, military, and sexual proletarianization.
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Service Economies presents an alternative narrative of South Korean modernity by examining how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Korea's changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a subempire.
Making surprising and revelatory connections, Jin-kyung Lee analyzes South Korean military labor in the Vietnam War, domestic female sex workers, South Korean prostitution for U.S. troops, and immigrant/migrant labor from Asia in contemporary South Korea. Foregrounding gender, sexuality, and race, Lee reimagines the South Korean economic "miracle" as a global and regional articulation of industrial, military, and sexual proletarianization.
Lee not ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816651269
SKU
V9780816651269
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About Jin-Kyung Lee
Jin-kyung Lee is associate professor of Korean and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea
"Examining South Korean history since 1945, Service Economies highlights the role of sexualized and gendered working-class labor as an occluded but crucial part of South Korean modernization. A truly interdisciplinary project, Jin-Kyung Lee’s ambitious, rigorous, and synthetic work intervenes into historical, political economic, and cultural studies scholarship on South Korea, transnational labor, gender and sexuality, and U.S. neo-colonialism." —Grace Hong, ... Read more