Research Catalog

Title

The strains of economic growth : labor unrest and social dissatisfaction in Korea / David L. Lindauer ... [et al].

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Institute for International Development ; Seoul : Korea Development Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Lindauer, David L., 1952-
• Harvard Institute for International Development
• Han'guk Kaebal Yŏn'guwŏn

Description

xiii, 194 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This study of labor unrest and social dissatisfaction in Korea is a collaborative venture between the Korea Development Institute and the Harvard Institute for International Development. It was designed to update the previous joint study of Korea's modernization. This volume provides an analytic history of how the strains of Korea's economic growth contributed to the labor unrest and popular discontent of the late 1980s. Set against rapid increases in wages and employment, worker dissatisfaction is traced to patterns of income inequality and to nonpecuniary dimensions of working life, including the suppression of labor organizations. The analysis is essential to understanding the labor struggles that continue in Korea today and is highly relevant for other emerging economies that wish to benefit from both the successes and failures of Korea's experience.

Series Statement

Harvard studies in international development

Uniform Title

Harvard studies in international development.

Alternative Title

Labor unrest and social dissatisfaction in Korea

Subject

• 1975-1996
• 1960-1988
• Labor disputes > Korea (South)
• Social conflict > Korea (South)
• Korea (South) > Economic conditions > 1960-
• Korea (South) > Social conditions

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• graph.
• bibliographie.
• graphique.
• bibliografía.
• gráfico.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / David L. Lindauer -- The evolution of social classes and changing social attitudes / Hy-Sop Lim -- Labor market outcomes: an overview / David L. Lindauer -- Relative deprivation and the distribution of wages / Joung-Woo Lee and David L. Lindauer -- The quality of working life / Joung-Woo Lee and David L. Lindauer -- Toward a social compact for South Korean labor / Ezra F. Vogel and David L. Lindauer -- Rural-urban disparity and government policies for rural development / Jong-Gie Kim and Jae-Young Son -- Conclusion: the strains of economic growth / David L. Lindauer --Epilogue: labor outcomes in the 1990s / David L. Lindauer.

ISBN

0674839811 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^97005513^

OCLC

• 36261311
• SCSB-10449684

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library