Protesting Precarity: South Korean Workers and the Labor of Refusal

This essay examines the crisis of solidarity affecting workers who protest labor precarity under South Korea's capitalist democracy. Once considered foundational to the struggle for national democratization, the dramatic protests of aggrieved workers are frequently depicted as out of place and...

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Vydáno v:	The Journal of Asian studies Ročník 81; číslo 1; s. 107 - 118
Hlavní autor:	Chun, Jennifer Jihye
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.02.2022 Duke University Press, NC & IL
Témata:	Asian studies Capitalism Democracy Democratization Demonstrations & protests Employment Ethnographic research Ethnography Fallacies Forum: South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement Grass roots movement Labor Militancy Neoliberalism Political activism Refusal Resistance Rituals Social cohesion Social movements Social networks Workers South Korea neoliberal capitalism labor unions social movements precarious work labor politics
ISSN:	0021-9118, 1752-0401
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Shrnutí:	This essay examines the crisis of solidarity affecting workers who protest labor precarity under South Korea's capitalist democracy. Once considered foundational to the struggle for national democratization, the dramatic protests of aggrieved workers are frequently depicted as out of place and out of sync. Drawing upon ethnographic research on workers’ protest repertoires, this essay challenges prevailing explanations and instead argues that heightened forms of drama, ritual, and suffering in workers’ protests enact a willful politics of refusal. Moving beyond resistance as an all-encompassing frame, the labor of refusal foregrounds ways of being and becoming that are not rooted in the contractual fallacies of liberal capitalist democracy, but in the spaces of solidarity produced by social movement networks and grassroots communities of care. The labor of refusal may not always generate robust solidarity, but it challenges the structures of organized abandonment that treat workers as disposable under neoliberal capitalist rule.
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ISSN:	0021-9118 1752-0401
DOI:	10.1017/S0021911821001479