workingclasshistory:

Our latest podcast episode is now out for everyone: about two extremely influential South Korean worker organisers, Jeon Tae-il and Lee So-sun, and the autonomous self-organisation of women textile and garment workers in the country from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Jeon Tae-il is widely known in South Korea as a labour martyr after his protest self-immolation in 1970. His mother, Lee So-sun is less well known, despite her decades of activism, and even less spoken about are the unnamed masses of textile and garment workers, mostly women and girls, who self organised in sweatshops across the country, despite a brutal military dictatorship.
We speak with Rachel Min Park, a member of the Heung Coalition, about these events.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2021/03/24/e51-jeon-tae-il-and-lee-so-sun/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1692705924247884/?type=3