一九二〇・三〇年代朝鮮の労務管理体制 : 小野田セメント平壌工場と本社工場の比較を中心に
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze 'modernity' in a colonial setting through examining the characteristics of colonialism in Japanese-run factories in Korea and their effect on Korean society. First, in Japanese-run factories, Japanese and Korean workers were divided on ethnic lines for political reasons, but also because Japanese workers had superior technical skills. Korean workers could gain higher wages but were not promoted to supervisory positions. However, to encourage efficiency, the management introduced incentive schemes which applied equally to workers of both races. Individual Korean workers responded positively to these schemes as a way of achieving social and economic independence. While the ethnic division of the labour market led to increasing competition among Korean workers to enter factories, the incentitive schemes meant that they experienced fierce competition inside the factories as well. This experience of competing as individuals was something , which they had not met before, and it forced a change in their consciousness. Second, Korean workers became more skilled, both through their own efforts under the stimulus of the incentive sehemes, and as a result of company training programs introduced so that they could replace the more expensive Japanese workers. These skilled Korean workers contributed to the growth of the cement industry after the 1945 Liberation. Third, the colonial labour management system succeeded not so much because the humanity of individual Korean workers was denied, but because economic profitability and Japanese ethnic separateness were maintained through denying the humanity of Korean workers at a group level, as a result of racial discrimination against Koreans. Fourth, this labour management system nevertheless contained a fundamental contradiction in that it required the employment of Korean workers who were being encouraged to achieve social and economic independence on an individual level while gradually becoming aware that their humanity was being denied at a group level.
- 社会経済史学会の論文
- 1995-01-25