This ethnography examines the lives of young female factory workers in the Masan Free Export Zone of South Korea.
List of Tables and FiguresPreface: Field, Subject, AuthorAcknowledgmentsLanguage Note1Women Caught between Global Capitalism and South Korean Patriarchy12The Process of Production in the Masan Free Export Zone193The Myth of Social Mobility: Its Creation and Reproduction among Women Workers574Labor Militancy and Collective Action975The Making of Working-Class Identity: Students' Theories and Workers' Lives1296Conclusion170References185Index197