Industrial Warriors: South Korea’s First Generation of Industrial Workers in Post-Developmental Korea.
This study analyses the skills upgrading programmes of South Korea’s first generation of skilled workers, focusing on their political and social trajectories from bulwarks of the developmental regimes up until 1987, to a “labour aristocracy” of regular workers employed mainly in large companies in h...
| Published in: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 577 - 596 |
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Dec2013
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=91735702&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 91735702 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10357823 SDR jtl: Asian Studies Review issn: 10357823 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2013 vid: 37 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 91735702 10.1080/10357823.2013.790341 ppf: 577 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 169KB tig: atl: Industrial Warriors: South Korea’s First Generation of Industrial Workers in Post-Developmental Korea. aug: au: Kim, Hyung-A affil: Australian National University su: Economic development South Korean economic policy, 1960-1988 Skilled labor South Korean politics & government, 1960-1988 Labor movement Semiskilled labor Economic reform Neoliberalism South Korea Asia sug: subj: South Korea Asia Economic development South Korean economic policy, 1960-1988 Skilled labor South Korean politics & government, 1960-1988 Labor movement Semiskilled labor Economic reform Neoliberalism keyword: developmental state economic restructuring industrial skilled and semi- skilled workers Industrial Warriors unionisation movement ab: This study analyses the skills upgrading programmes of South Korea’s first generation of skilled workers, focusing on their political and social trajectories from bulwarks of the developmental regimes up until 1987, to a “labour aristocracy” of regular workers employed mainly in large companies in heavy industries in South Korea. The term “labour aristocracy” highlights how the “regular workers”, employed mostly in monopolistic large enterprises in heavy industries, have better wages, job security and other social benefits than “non-regular workers” and other regular workers employed in small and medium companies. It argues that these “Industrial Warriors” were the product of the Korean developmental state’s creation of an egalitarian social contract, and that the political and social trajectories since then must be seen in its totality. This is necessary because it manifests the profound change in Korea’s political economy from state-grassroots synergistic developmentalism to neoliberal industrial capitalism, wherein having a regular job has become a substantial asset in an era of non-regular employment. This study contributes to the literature on the political economy and to sociological discussion of the Korean developmental state that continues to this day and is far from over. 본 연구는 한국의 일세대 숙련공들의 기술 향상 (skills upgrading) 프로그램을 그들이 거쳐온 정치.사회적 행로 (trajectories), 즉 철옹성같았던 1987년이전 개발정권하에서 방파제 (bulwarks) 역활을 시작으로, 현재는 대기업에 대부분 고용되어 있는 정규직 "노동귀족"으로 변신된 과정을 중심으로 분석한다. 여기서 '노동귀족'이란 용어는 대부분 독점적 중화학관련 대기업에 고용된 "정규직노동자들" 이 "비정규직 노동자들"과 기타 중소기업에 고용된 다른 정규직노동자들에 비해서 얼마나 나은 임금과 고용보장 및 다른 사회적혜택을 누리는가를 돋보이게한다. 본 연구는 이른바 한국의 "산업전사들"은 개발정권이 고안해낸 평등주의적 사회계약의 산물이어서 개발정권이후의 그들의 정치.사회적 행로는 총체적 견지에서 파악되어야 함을 주장 한다. 왜냐면 이들 산업전사들의 정치.사회적행로 자체가 근본적의로 변한 한국의 정치경제, 즉 국가와 민생이 서로밀접하게 상호작용을했던 개발주의 (developmentalism)로부터 정규직 그자체가 상당한 재산이되는 비정규직 고용시대의 신자유주의적 산업자본주의로 바뀐걸 증명하기때문이다. 이연구는 정치경제 문헌에 기여하고 또한 현재까지도 지속되고있는 한국발전국가의 사회학적 담론에 기여한다. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Asian Studies Review is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Asian Studies Review holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2013 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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