한국 섬유산업과 노동시장, 1945~2004

Abstract

This Study examined the evolution of textile industry and its labor market after 1945 in Korea. First, many small companies emerged as a new or renewal and disappeared during the rising era of textile industry in Korea. The labor market was not stabilized in initial era of rising but the month of entrance and retirement was fixed and it became steady after the mid of 1960s. Second, the textile companies increased the ratio of machine operation in order to compensate the shortage of labor force supply after 1960s as an initial era of the growth period. After 1970s, the textile companies increased working hours to replace the slowdown of machine operation’s ratio. The working time expanded until 1980s and the textile companies constructed dormitory for employees to maintain the enlargement of working time. Third, the textile industry of Korea should to adjust since the growth rate declined after the mid of 1980s. The restructuring policy, which already launched before 1980s separately, became institutionalization and synthesis. The Korean government not only supplied the benefit of tax reduction for merged company resulted from restructuring but regulated to keep the rule of employment succession for merged companies’ employee. In textile industry’s labor market in Korea, the increasing rate of real wage was higher than the increasing rate of labor productivity after 1987 which was the year of starting point of labor movement. But the agreement level for wage increase between company and employee was lower or a little bit of higher than the level of labor productivity increasing rate.