The political economy of the small welfare state in South Korea /

The political economy of the small welfare state in South Korea /

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Author / Creator:	Yang, Chae-jin, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xvii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Welfare state -- Korea (South) Economic history. Welfare state. Korea (South) -- Economic conditions -- 1960-1988. Korea (South) -- Economic conditions -- 1988-2002. Korea (South) -- Economic conditions -- 2002- Korea (South)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11946694

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ISBN:	9781108415903 1108415903 9781108402484 1108402488 9781108246736 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy. Unlike most social science books on Korea, which tend to focus on its developmental state and past years' rapid economic development, this book deals with social welfare issues and politics during the critical junctures in Korea's history: industrialization in the 1960-70s, the democratization and labor movement in the mid-1980s, globalization and the financial crisis in the 1990s and the 'wind of free welfare' in the 2010s. It highlights the self-interested activities of Korea's militant enterprise unionism at variance with those of a more solidaristic industrial unionism in the European welfare states. Korean big business, the chaebol, accommodated the unions' call for higher wages and more corporate welfare, which removed practical incentives for unions to demand social welfare. Korea's single-member-district electoral rules also induce politicians to sell geographically targeted, narrow benefits rather than public welfare for all"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781108246736

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