The Strains of Economic Growth: Labor Unrest and Social Dissatisfaction in Korea

by Harvard Institute for International Deve, Jong-Gie Kim, David L. Lindauer, et al.

By the mid-1980s, Korea's economic and political situation was becoming volatile. Labour relations were especially contentious. This book is a collaborative research project between the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Korea Development Institute and provides an analytic history of the economic causes of the labour unrest and popular discontent of the late 1980s. Set against rapid increases in wages and employment, worker dissatisfaction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674839811
• ISBN13: 9780674839816
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"