유통서비스업 시간제 일자리의 실제: 경력단절 여성의 판매노동 경험을 중심으로

Abstract

This study explores women’s working conditions in non-regular jobs and finds out employer’s labor control to them and gender discrimination in work places. This study is implemented by the field work to get the experiences. Married women who left labor markets due to pregnancy and maternity, would come back to the labor markets to get income for living some time after. When they come back and try to get a job, it is not easy to get the jobs that they used to have before. Mostly they get non-regular jobs, which mean lower payed, shorter or longer working time compared to the regular jobs, poor welfare conditions and time-limited work contracts. In department stores, the most representative retail service industry in Korea, many women part-time/temporary workers are discriminated by the employers and other regular job workers. They are at the bottom of the work hierachy and are excluded from the legal and institutional protection of the companies and governments. In terms of the gendered labor control, they are vulnerable to linguistic, physical and sexual violence from the employers. To avoid that kinds of labor control, they try to characterize themselves as housewives rather than workers. It is a passive way to protect themselves from the empolyers’ degrading treatments.