1960년대 이전 면방직공장의 기능자 양성과정 연구

Abstract

This study focuses on the training programs for the skilled cotton textile technicians listed on the “A Register of Textile Engineers and Technicians,” published by the Korean Textile Association in 1954. The main findings in the study are summarized as follows. First, the “Register” consists of 643 male workers. 584 workers of them can be classified into the skilled labors, The average age of the skilled workers is 37.7 years old, and the average working experience is 15.7 years. 74.1 percent of them are elementary school graduates. 85 percent of them are between 30 and 49 years old and 51 percent had started to make their career during the Second World War. Second, 68 technicians had received regular school education before entering the factories, and 58 of them graduated or dropped out the technical school. It is presumed that they were enrolled in “Government Kyung Sung Technical School” or “Kyung Sung Public Technical School”. Their curriculum provided rudimentary technical education centered on the hands-on training. Finally, 516 people, or 88 percent of total 643 male workers in the “Register”, had been trained as the technical labor after joining their factories. They mainly took charge of assisting operation, organizing and cleaning work place, repairing and assisting maintenance for facilities. Carrying out their duties, they had been nourished as the skilled labor through the implicit knowledge passing down. These results of the paper show that the implicit knowledge transfer and training programs in the working site had been playing important roles in nourishing the skilled labor. In particular, these methods for cultivating the skilled workers were more important in the cotton textile industry because the general-purpose skills and skilled labor were mainly needed in this industry. Therefore, during the industrialization in 1960s, instead of the implicit knowledge passing down and imformal training programs, systematic training programs for nourishing skilled labor had been seriously required to achieve economic growth by developing new technology and moving into new industries.