Varieties of Precarity Melting Labour and the Failure to Protect Workers in the Korean Welfare State
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series editors’ preface
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Melting labour and institutional inconsistency
- 2 Social protection policies and the South Korean labour market in comparative perspective
- 3 When insiders are kicked out: layoffs of regular workers in manufacturing
- 4 Same boat, different destiny: subcontracted workers in the Korean shipbuilding industry
- 5 Young and old outsourced female workers in call centres and cleaning services
- 6 Are freelancers really free? The Korean freelance labour market and the precarity of young freelancers
- 7 The digital precariat: various Korean platform workers and the new work logic
- 8 Conclusion: Towards universal institutional protection for precarious workers in the era of melting labour
- Notes
- References
- Index
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 April 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series editors’ preface
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Melting labour and institutional inconsistency
- 2 Social protection policies and the South Korean labour market in comparative perspective
- 3 When insiders are kicked out: layoffs of regular workers in manufacturing
- 4 Same boat, different destiny: subcontracted workers in the Korean shipbuilding industry
- 5 Young and old outsourced female workers in call centres and cleaning services
- 6 Are freelancers really free? The Korean freelance labour market and the precarity of young freelancers
- 7 The digital precariat: various Korean platform workers and the new work logic
- 8 Conclusion: Towards universal institutional protection for precarious workers in the era of melting labour
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- Varieties of PrecarityMelting Labour and the Failure to Protect Workers in the Korean Welfare State, pp. 176 - 189Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2023