일본질소의 임금제도－민족 간 임금격차의 원인, 1936~1945－

Abstract

We have many studies in terms of the employment and wage at the Japan Nitrogen Fertilizer which was the largest company in colonial Korea. Kobayashi Hideo(1967 ; 1973) focused on the characteristics of colonial employment structure that Japanese is higher-ranking worker and Korean is lower-ranking worker. Sugaya Kenich(1975) pointed out Korean higher-ranking worker as well as a wage gap between Japanese worker and Korean worker. An Byeong Jik(1988) argued that the ratio of higher-ranking Korean worker increased and the emerging of Korean white collar. Yang Ji Hye(2016 ; 2017) examined employment and wage through the company administration materials of the Japan Nitrogen Fertilizer. In this paper, we explored to disclose the causes of wage gap between Japanese worker and Korean worker through a management of personnel system. If it would be succeed, it could support the argument of Sun Jae Won(2006) that a hierarchical system influenced to wage gap between Japanese worker and Korean worker rather than a wage system in colonial Korea. Japanese managers gave preference to white collar worker not blue collar worker as another pre-war Japanese companies. They allocated the rule that a higher-ranking worker earns more wage as promote rather than as a lower-ranking worker promotes. Therefore, Korean workers at the Japan Nitrogen Fertilizer should promote to higher-ranking position and appoint from blue collar worker to white collar worker in order to realize high level wage. But Korean workers did not realized to reduce the ratio of wage gap with Japanese worker because they had little chance to appoint to white collar and promote to a command position guaranteed higher wage.