A Study on the Marginal Female Labor Movement and the Labor Market in Korea: Focusing on the 1980s and 1990s

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K12478
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 80030:Gender studies-related
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Yokota Nobuko 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (60274148)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 女工文学 / 周辺部女性労働者 / 非正規労働者と正規労働者の連帯と組織化 / 同一産業同一労働組合 / 超短時間労働者 / インフォーマルでプレカリアスな雇用

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The achievements of this research are threefold. First, it discovered an innovative perspective called ‘factory girl literature,which analyzes novels and memoirs written by female factory workers themselves, as an effective method to capture the‘voiceless voices’of peripheral female workers in South Korea during the 1980s and 1990s, differing from traditional classanalysis. Second,it analyzed a case study of the Australian labor movement from the perspective of comparison with Korea and Japan, and examined the formation of solidarity between irregular and regular workers and the organizing of them both into the same labor union.Third,it clarified the characteristics and historical significance of the " ultra-short- time workers" who have been rapidly increasing in Korea since 2000, especially care workers and domestic workers, from a gender perspective, and found a new way to organize them as " co-operatives".

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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

まず、「女工文学」という新しい視座の発見によって、歴史の中でほとんど顧みられることのなかった韓国の女性工場労働者の声なき声を掬い上げ、彼女たちの主体的な生きざまをとらえ直す新たな分析方法を提供できた。次に、「同一産業同一労働組合」を体現するオーストラリアの労働運動との比較分析を通して、韓国と日本では困難な、非正規労働者と正規労働者の連帯を形成し、両者を同一の組合に組織する戦略を構築する重要な示唆を得た。第三に、韓国だけでなく、世界的に急速に増大している「超短時間労働者」の実態を歴史的に明らかにし、もっともインフォーマルでプレカリアスな雇用である、これらの労働者の問題解決の糸口を導き出した。