Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Legacies of Colonialism and the Early Cold War Years -- 1. Worker Military in the Postwar Years -- 2. Anticommunism, Labor Rights, and Organized Labor: The Early 1950s -- Part II: The Emergence of a Democratic Union -- 3. KSEC Workers in the 1950s -- 4. The KSEC Union in the Political Upheavals of 1960-61 -- 5. Consolidation of a Democratic Union -- 6. Rationalization and Resistance -- Part III: Development over Democracy -- 7. Development versus Democracy: The Late 1960s -- 8. Privatization and the Suppression of Labor, 1968-69 -- 9. Shipbuilding Workers under Authoritarian Rule: The 1970s -- 10. Shipbuilding for the World Market and Resurging Labor Militancy -- Appendix A: The KSEC Union Archive Document File List, 1960-79 -- Appendix B: The Labor Charter of 1948 -- Appendix C: A Comparison of Two Contracts, 1968 and 1971 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.