‘Still out on the street waging this fight’: Women irregular workers and industrial action in Korea

Kim Young and Kaye Broadbent
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Kim Young: Pusan National University, Republic of Korea
Kaye Broadbent: Griffith University, Australia

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2018, vol. 39, issue 2, 228-248

Abstract: This article reviews the 510-day strike by women irregular workers in the South Korean retail industry, and analyses factors which made a group of women irregular workers, whose employment conditions render them the most marginal employees, to sustain a lengthy struggle despite financial and family pressures. This article argues there are three factors behind the struggle: first their desire to address the employment discrimination and inhumane treatment they faced at work; second their belief that the struggle was larger than just their immediate demands; and third the solidarity and support they received from both the union and full-time colleagues and from the broader community.

Keywords: Community support; E-N strike; industrial action; irregular workers; part-time workers; Republic of Korea; retail industry; women workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X15620847

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