Labor's Place in South Korean Development
Author | : Hwasook Bergquist Nam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Labor movement |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hwasook Bergquist Nam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Labor movement |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hwasook Bergquist Nam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David L. Lindauer |
Publisher | : Harvard Kennedy School |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This study of labor unrest and social dissatisfaction in Korea is a collaborative venture between the Korea Development Institute and the Harvard Institute for International Development. It was designed to update the previous joint study of Korea's modernization. This volume provides an analytic history of how the strains of Korea's economic growth contributed to the labor unrest and popular discontent of the late 1980s. Set against rapid increases in wages and employment, worker dissatisfaction is traced to patterns of income inequality and to nonpecuniary dimensions of working life, including the suppression of labor organizations. The analysis is essential to understanding the labor struggles that continue in Korea today and is highly relevant for other emerging economies that wish to benefit from both the successes and failures of Korea's experience.
Author | : Ezra F. Vogel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Labor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dipak Mazumdar |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Corea - Condiciones economicas |
ISBN | : |
Korea's ability to keep the economy from going off the rails has been as remarkable as its achievement of high long- run growth rates. The key to the success of Korea's labor policy - state guidelines limited the wage increases under structural adjustment - was the high rate of total factor productivity growth.
Author | : Hagen Koo |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Factories |
ISBN | : 9780801486968 |
Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factory and to search for justice in society. The working class in South Korea was born in a cultural and political environment extremely hostile to its development, Koo says. Korean workers forged their collective identity much more rapidly, however, than did their counterparts in other newly industrialized countries in East Asia. This book investigates how South Korea's once-docile and submissive workers reinvented themselves so quickly into a class with a distinct identity and consciousness. Based on sources ranging from workers' personal writings to union reports to in-depth interviews, this book is a penetrating analysis of the South Korean working-class experience. Koo reveals how culture and politics simultaneously suppressed and facilitated class formation in South Korea. With chapters exploring the roles of women, students, and church organizations in the struggle, the book reflects Koo's broader interest in the social and cultural dimensions of industrial transformation.
Author | : Sŭng-ho Kwŏn |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Big business |
ISBN | : 9780415221696 |
Focusing on the labour management strategies of the Hyundai Business Group, this important new study argues that historical analysis is essential for a complete understanding of the dynamics of South Korean industrial relations.
Author | : Chang-Ling Huang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Korea (South) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kim Sunghoon |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780761830764 |
This book examines the value Korean employers and workers place on stable employment with a focus on the workers' want for more desirable transition outcomes as modified by various individual and structural factors, particularly labor market structure. Results of the analysis show that internal labor market structure has increased employment stability and the desirability of transition outcomes in Korea over time. Korea's industrialization has enabled internal labor market structure to mature to a level that has increased employment stability and the desirability of transition outcomes. This implies that Korea has experienced industrialization in such a short period that internal labor market structure has not matured enough to influence the ways in which other factors affect employment transition patterns. Results of the effects of labor market structure and other factors on employment transition patterns imply that Korea's industrialization has had mixed effects on workers' economic and social well-being. On the one hand, it has improved the overall level of workers' well being, yet on the other hand, it has increased heterogeneity in well being among different types of workers.
Author | : Seung-kyung Kim |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1997-06-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 052157062X |
This study complements the burgeoning literature on South Korean economic development by considering it from the perspective of young female factory workers. In approaching development from this position, Kim explores the opportunity and exploitation that development has presented to female workers and humanizes the notion of the 'Korean economic miracle' by examining its impact on their lives. Kim looks at the conflicts and ambivalences of young women as they participate in the industrial work force and simultaneously grapple with defining their roles in respect to marriage and motherhood within conventional family structures. The book explores the women's individual and collective struggles to improve their positions and examines their links with other political forces within the labor movement. She analyses how female workers envision their place in society, how they cope with economic and social marginalisation in their daily lives, and how they develop strategies for a better future.