ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the precise nature of the jobs, the female workers undertook and the conditions both material and supervisory under which they were conducted. The production process and management relations are considered as are some of the tensions between the workers themselves which arose as a direct result of those relations. The chapter describes the wages earned by the women workers in the Peace Market; a factual record gained not from contemporary government statistics or academic tomes, but from the personal recollections of the women themselves. Before looking at the financial circumstances of women workers in the Peace Market in the 1970s and the dreariness of the lifestyle they were able to afford it is important to highlight a factor that dominated, and continues to dominate, the consciousness of all Korean females. The chapter addresses the question of the standard of domestic accommodation, especially with regard to the hundreds of young shidas who laboured in the Peace Market.
