They Are Not Machines (Korean Women Workers and their Fight for Democratic Trade Unionism in the 1970s)

Examining the dark underbelly of the South Korean 'economic miracle', Chun Soonok outlines the political and economic history of Korea in the 1960s and 1970s with female-staffed textile sweatshops at the forefront of economic development. Based on compelling personal accounts, this is the first published account of the women workers' struggle and it throws much light on the process of modernization and industrialization in Korea beyond.

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