Summary of the Labor Situation in South Korea
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hagen Koo
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1501731777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kim Sunghoon
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780761830764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Hagen Koo
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780801486968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: K. Bae
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-26
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1137428082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Employment Relations in South Korea provides readers with an overarching view of Korean employment relations and insight into recent changes, and also to help the general public understand more easily the various phenomena and changes in Korean employment relations.
Author: Mai Dao
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2014-07-25
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 1498347924
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While the Korean unemployment rates are currently among the lowest in OECD countries, the labor market duality and the underemployment in some segments of the population are important labor market challenges, and factors contributing to lower potential growth. The paper shows the benefits of comprehensive policy reforms aimed at increasing labor force participation and youth employment and reducing duality are likely to be considerable in the medium term.