Economic Crisis, Neoliberal Reforms, and the Rise of Precarious Work in South Korea
Economic Crisis, Neoliberal Reforms, and the Rise of Precarious Work in South Korea
复制标题
DOI：
10.1177/0002764212466241
复制
发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Shin, Kwang-Yeong
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Shin, Kwang-Yeong
本文探讨了1997年金融危机后，韩国工作的广泛职业化及其对人们工作生活的影响。不稳定劳动者的急剧增加是新民主主义政府实施的新自由主义经济改革的直接后果，包括在国际货币基金组织的指导下提高劳动力市场的灵活性和重组金融市场。在过去十年中，韩国的不稳定工作急剧增加，包括正规部门的非正规工人和不稳定的自营职业。最重要的是，2000年代新型非正规就业的激增见证了韩国工作世界的重大转变，加深了不平等和贫困。极度自由化的劳动力市场往往导致非正式工人的激烈劳动斗争，他们没有资格成为工会成员，取代了正式工人工会的劳动运动。
This article explores the extensive casualization of work and its impact on the working life of the people in South Korea after the financial crisis in 1997. A drastic increase in precarious workers was an immediate consequence of the neoliberal economic reform implemented by the new democratic government, including the enhancement of flexibility in the labor market and the restructuring of the financial market, under the guidance of the International Monetary Fund. Precarious work in South Korea has dramatically increased in the past decade, including both nonregular workers and precarious self-employment in the formal sector. Above all, proliferation of new types of nonregular employment in the 2000s has witnessed the significant transformation of the world of work in South Korea, deepening inequality and poverty. The extremely liberalized labor market tends to result in the fierce labor struggle of nonregular workers, not entitled to be members of unions, replacing the labor movement of regular workers' labor unions.