208 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea’s transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent and dynamic labour movement. Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation examines current trends and transformations within the Korean labour movement since the 1990s.
It has been a common assumption that the... Read more
1. Neoliberal Globalization, Labour, and Resistance 2. Globalization, Crisis and the Entrenchment of Neoliberalism in Korea 3. The Rise and Fall of Militant Labour Unionism in Korea 4. Social Movement Unionism and the Korean Labour Movement 5. Late-Democratization and Low Intensity Social Corporatism 6. Korean Labour and the Struggle against Neoliberalism 7. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions’ Social Reform Struggle
Biography
Kevin Gray is RCUK Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex.
'This is a welcome addition to the literature on worker's protest in that it is firmly grounded in the internal debates around strategy and tactics of the Korean labour movement.]...[The strength of Gray's book is the access he provides to internal labour movement publications and documents that are not readily available to non-Korean speakers.' - Jamie Doucette, University of British Columbia, 2010
