Reader in Human Geography @ University of Manchester. Author of The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (Michigan: 2024, OA). Co-Editor: Developmentalist Cities? (Brill/Haymarket 2019). North sea surfer
Jamie Doucette
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@uofmpress.bsky.social have a spring sale on atm. SPRING26 gets you 50% off a range of titles. Sale includes my book on the dilemmas of contemporary Korean politics encountered by progressive efforts to resolve inequality and address the enduring power of the chaebol and the conservative bloc.
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Kap Seol gets into the details here in this excellent piece just out at @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
Today in continuing far right Kor-US networking:
Something to follow up on later:
What would an alternative bonanza look like that went not only to core workers but precarious employees and their communities?
The Hynix and Samsung ‘bonanza’ deals have raised a lot of questions about who and what unions fight for in Korea lately. Great for many direct employees but ‘divisionsal’ unionism seems just as bad if not worse than enterprise unionism. Not to mention the plight of undercompensated subcontractors.
