Abstract:Under rising insecurity and precarity in the neoliberal labor market, Korean
workers have protested mass job cuts and deteriorating working conditions.
Although their grievances originate from the regions and workplaces where they
are employed or laid off, the protest sites often move to major political landmarks
in Seoul, the nation’s capital, with demands for political redress. These labor
protests in the capital demonstrate two distinctive features of Korean labor
movements in the 2000s: protests go on for … Show more
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