Introduction : minjung, history, and historical subjectivity
The construction of minjung
Anticommunism and North Korea
Anti-Americanism and chuch'e sasang
The undonggwŏn as a counterpublic sphere
Between indeterminacy and radical critique : madanggŭk, ritual, and protest
The alliance between labor and intellectuals
"To be reborn as revolutionary workers" : Gramscian fusion and Leninist vanguardism
The subject as the subjected : intellectuals and workers in labor literature
Conclusion : the minjung movement as history.