Third World women strikers were beaten by male coworkers into abandoning their dispute.

Evidence

In Seoul, South Korea, in March 1982, 237 women workers in a factory owned by Control Data, a Minnesota-based multinational corporation, struck over a demand for a wage raise. Six union leaders were dismissed and imprisoned. In July, the women took hostage two visiting U.S. vicepresidents, demanding reinstatement of the union leaders. Control Data’s main office was willing to release the women; the Korean government was reluctant. On July 16, the Korean male workers at the factory beat up the female workers and ended the dispute. Many of the women were injured; two suffered miscarriages. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 539

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Multinational managers disowned responsibility while their workers were beaten. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 545; Capitalist patriarchy channels men’s dehumanized work rage into violence against women. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 303

Broader Connections

• Capitalist patriarchy channels men’s dehumanized work rage into violence against women. #expands (0.85) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 303
• Multinational managers disowned responsibility while their workers were beaten. #qualifies (0.82) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 545