{"id":8562,"date":"2010-04-10T08:02:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T08:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2017-11-23T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T08:03:33","slug":"2010-4-labor-politics-of-suicide-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2010\/04\/10\/2010-4-labor-politics-of-suicide-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"[2010-#4] Labor Politics of Suicide in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;4\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h4>Labor Politics of Suicide in Korea:<br \/>\nThe Changing Power Balance between Workers and Employers<\/h4>\n<p>Suk-Man Hwang<br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology<br \/>\nChangwon National University<br \/>\nChangwon, 641-773<br \/>\nSouth Korea<br \/>\nunified@changwon.ac.kr[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_text_separator title=&#8221;Abstract&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This paper deals with a series of Korean workers\u2019 suicides in 2003. Suicides by Korean workers have not been rare and often been considered a weapon of the weak; however, suicides by organized workers in large companies, with good pay and high job security in 2003 were unprecedented. This paper uses a historical approach to identify structural variables that had influenced these suicides and to examine how they are related to the deaths; it shows how suicides of workers have gained their meaning and role in labor politics in Korean society. Then, the paper identifies major changes in industrial relations in Korea that affected the increase of suicides. Finally, it attempts to show how these changes had influenced to the worker suicides in 2003.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;4\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text] Labor Politics of Suicide in Korea: The Changing Power Balance between Workers and Employers Suk-Man Hwang Department of Sociology Changwon National University Changwon, 641-773 South Korea unified@changwon.ac.kr[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_text_separator title=&#8221;Abstract&#8221;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This paper deals with a series of Korean workers\u2019 suicides in 2003. Suicides by Korean workers have not been rare and often been considered a weapon of the weak; however, suicides by organized workers in large companies, with good pay and high job security in 2003 were unprecedented. This paper uses a historical approach to identify structural variables that had influenced these suicides and to examine how they are related to the deaths; it shows how suicides of workers have gained their meaning and role in labor politics in Korean society. Then, the paper identifies major changes in industrial relations in Korea that affected the increase of suicides. Finally, it attempts&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working-paper-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8564,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}