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Workers in the Supply Chain of the Global Automobile Industry

2005-04-01

Peter Wad

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Market controls and flexibility in Korea

2003-01-07
Chang Dae-oup and Chae Jun-Ho
 
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Action alert

2003-01-07
Worker’s suicide must not be in vain
 
A suicide note was found in Bae Dal-ho’s car after he committed suicide on 10 January near a cooling tower on the site where he worked.
 
Part of the note signed by Bae said, “Due to the company’s provisional seizure of my wage, I did not receive any pay for more than six months. No wage will be paid to me on this forthcoming payday, nor the day after tomorrow. But the most painful thing is to see my co-workers dismissed for union activities. Doosan should reinstate them.”
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Asia Pacific Labour Law Review: Workers' Rights for the New Century

2003-01-01
 

This book is more than a review of labour law, it is the only comprehensive review available of labour law in the Asia Pacific region. It investigates the impact of labour law on workers in 30 countries. It analyses trade union and labour activists’ responses to changes in labour law, and examines what labour law means for workers’ daily lives. Each chapter representing a country can be downloaded country wise for download below.
 

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The other side of World Cup fever in Korea

2002-07-01
Kim Aehwa
 
 
A Brazilian soccer team kissed the trophy in triumph after the final game of the 2002 World Cup tournament. The event hosted by South Korea and Japan lasted from 31 May to 30 June.
 
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Legal exploitation of migrants in South Korea

2002-04-01
Kim Aehwa
 
Last year, over 280 Chinese workers in a single textile factory located in South Korea demonstrated to demand payment of the legal minimum wage. The 280 workers were receiving as little as their counterpart workers in a subsidiary Korean-invested factory in China, where the cost of living is considerably less than in South Korea.
 
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Unity Between Formal And Informal Workers at E-Land, Korea

2001-10-01

Hong Yoonkyung and Kim Aehwa

This dispute is complicated by the way the company divides and rules the workforce using a variety of hiring/contractual systems; similarly this report is complicated by the English words used to describe each group. The chart below hopefully simplifies, defines, and standardises the confusion.

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SAFETY AND HEALTH IN SOUTH KOREA

2001-07-01

General Working Conditions

Long Working Hours

The current statutory working week is 44 hours. The real working hours in the immediate aftermath of the economic crisis and the IMF-prescribed loan declined slightly due to corporate structural adjustment and slump in the operational rate of facilities. However, from 1999, working hours increased again.

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MONITORING THE MONITORS: A CRITIQUE OF PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS' LABOUR MONITORING

2001-02-01

Dara O'Rourke

This is an edited version of Dara's full text, which can be found at http://web.mit.edu/dorourke/www/index.html

This report presents the first systematic public analysis of the code of conduct monitoring methods employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to inspect factory labour practices around the world. The author accompanied PwC auditors on factory inspections in China and Korea, and evaluated PwC's findings for a factory in Indonesia.

Introduction

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SOCIAL WELFARE DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH KOREA: A LABOUR PERSPECTIVE

2000-09-01

Sunwoo Lee and In-Jae Lee

South Korea's economy has fallen into serious crisis since 1997 and is now under the control of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The current economic troubles were unexpected, but the causes seem to be rooted deep in the South Korean economic structure.

National Pension Plan

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SEX WORK IN SOUTH KOREA

2000-03-01

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Yu, Tae Hee

General Situation

Prostitute Women and Client Statistic

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