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Korean Skilled Workers - Toward a Labor Aristocracy (Paperback)
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Korean Skilled Workers - Toward a Labor Aristocracy (Paperback)
Series: Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
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South Korea's triumphant development has catapulted the country's
economy to the eleventh largest in the world. Large family-owned
conglomerates, or chaebols, such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have
become globally preeminent manufacturing brands. Yet Korea's highly
disciplined, technologically competent skilled workers who built
these brands have become known only for their successful
labor-union militancy, which in recent decades has been criticized
as collective "selfishness" that has allowed them to prosper at the
expense of other workers. Hyung-A Kim tells the story of Korea's
first generation of skilled workers in the heavy and chemical
industries sector, following their dramatic transition from
1970s-era "industrial warriors" to labor-union militant "Goliat
Warriors," and ultimately to a "labor aristocracy" with guaranteed
job security, superior wages, and even job inheritance for their
children. By contrast, millions of Korea's non-regular employees,
especially young people, struggle in precarious and insecure
employment. This richly documented account demonstrates that
industrial workers' most enduring goal has been their own economic
advancement, not a wider socialist revolution, and shows how these
individuals' paths embody the consequences of rapid development.
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