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  • 18 - A Critical Assessment of Democratic Labor Unionism in South Korea from a Feminist Standpoint

  • from Part IV - Country and Regional Perspectives
  • Edited by Angela B. Cornell, Cornell University, New York, Mark Barenberg, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
    Published online:
    25 January 2022
    Print publication:
    20 January 2022, pp 293-304

  • Summary

    Through the Candlelight movement, which led to the resignation of the former President due to corruption, a younger generation – which is the main victim of the neoliberal restructuring in South Korea – has raised fundamental questions concerning the definition of the “democracy” of the labor unionism. This paper argues that the “democratic norm” in Korean labor unionism should be assessed critically in terms of both the meaning and possibility of “collectiveness,” “militant organizational culture,” and the scope of “democratic value.” This chapter further maintains that these current critical questions on the (dis)continuity and sustainability of the democratic labor unionism correspond with feminist ideology, along with the growing diversity in the labor market in South Korea.