"Training Guatemalan Campesinos to Work Like Korean Peasants": Taxonomies and Temporalities of Labor Management

Joo Ok Kim, in “‘Training Guatemalan Campesinos to Work Like Korean Peasants’: Taxonomies and Temporalities of Labor Management,” analyzes the so-called internationalization of management technique, which rather than... [ view full abstract ]

Joo Ok Kim, in “‘Training Guatemalan Campesinos to Work Like Korean Peasants’: Taxonomies and Temporalities of Labor Management,” analyzes the so-called internationalization of management technique, which rather than “executing racial management in efforts to generate competition among differentially racialized workers, instead asserts cultural justifications for remaking Guatemalan and Mexican workers in the image of ‘compliant’ Korean workers.” Kim examines the unintended subversive possibilities emerging from management attempts to export disciplinary functions.