Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung HeeBuilding Ships, Building a Nation examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961 79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC), which was Korea's largest shipyard until Hyundai appeared on the scene in the early 1970s. Drawing on the union's extraordinary and extensive archive, Hwasook Nam focuses on the perceptions, attitudes, and discourses of the mostly male heavy industry