1920~1930년대 경성 노동숙박소의 장소성과 운영실태

Abstract

This study is focusing on the installation process of labor accommodations and laborers' experience of a place in the Japanese colonial period. Imperial Japan established various social works to suppress anti-Japanese movements such as the March First Independence Movement which were expressed in 1920's. The basic direction was from a poor relief as an ex post facto arrangement to a poverty-prevention policy as an advanced prevention level. Because laborers' houses of refuge were very formal, the poverty-prevention policy was nominal. Two labor accommodations were installed in Gyeongseong. The geographic space of installed accommodations existed as a public ostentation and a national division at the same time. Office-run accommodations were promoted in the reorganization process of urban space in Gyeongseong. Imperial Japan tried to appear in public interest and legitimacy of rule by establishing a public facility while it reorganized the space structure of Gyeongseong. But labor accommodations of Hwagwanggyowon(和光敎院) were completely intended for Korean, and had a strong ideological purpose such as a labor protection and the reformation of colonial Korean people. Most of labor accommodations users were day laborers who worked in the irregular labor. Their experience of a place were connected to the rhythm of modern society which had to make a survival condition such as the living space during one day by repetitive and continuous labor. Also labor accommodations were the space which day laborers shared daily problems, recognized and experienced social problems.