Varieties of Precarity
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Varieties of Precarity

Melting Labour and the Failure to Protect Workers in the Korean Welfare State

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Varieties of Precarity

Melting Labour and the Failure to Protect Workers in the Korean Welfare State

About this book

ePDFs of chapters 1, 2 and 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license.

Despite recent achievements in the South Korean economy and development within welfare institutions, new forms of precarious work continue to prevail.

This book introduces the concept of 'melting labour', which refers to the blurring of boundaries between traditional forms of work and workplace and the dissolution of standard employment relationships. Presenting a theoretical framework at the intersection of 'melting labour' and institutional protection of workers, it addresses how and why the Korean welfare state has failed to protect precarious workers.

Based on rich, in-depth interviews with over 80 precarious workers in Korea, from subcontracted manufacturing workers to platform workers, it provides a real depiction of how workers lose control over their lives and experience precariousness in labour markets.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Series editors’ preface
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction: Melting labour and institutional inconsistency
  10. 2 Social protection policies and the South Korean labour market in comparative perspective
  11. 3 When insiders are kicked out: layoffs of regular workers in manufacturing
  12. 4 Same boat, different destiny: subcontracted workers in the Korean shipbuilding industry
  13. 5 Young and old outsourced female workers in call centres and cleaning services
  14. 6 Are freelancers really free? The Korean freelance labour market and the precarity of young freelancers
  15. 7 The digital precariat: various Korean platform workers and the new work logic
  16. 8 Conclusion: Towards universal institutional protection for precarious workers in the era of melting labour
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index