여공의 눈으로 본 식민지 도시 풍경

Abstract

This paper pays attention to the historical point in which the farm girls leaving countryside for the urban factory were reconstructed into "factory girl" as one class of modern laborer in 1920―30s. The dominant representation of the factory and factory girl in 1930s by the socialist intellectuals was a victim of capitalism who suffered from a hard working under the poor labor condition or the proletariat with class consciousness and the perspective of socialistic revolution. Scholarship on these female factory workers has mainly been achieved in the socialist movement history. The aim of this paper is to investigate how farm girls were newly configured as modern laborers through an ideological politics of representation by questioning who re-presents the factory girl. Especially, I focus on the everyday life of factory girls and the diverse layers of their experiences and desires as one agent in urban space. And through an exploration of modernity, which both demarcates and traverses the boundaries of tradition and modern(nity) and class and gender, I attempt the re-imaging of the factory girl as the third world subaltern in the early 20thcentury.