비정규직 문제와 노동계급 계급균열: 비정규직 문제를 둘러싼 정규직 · 비정규직 의식 비교

Working class has variaous types of internal heterogeneity. In the process of neoliberal economic policies and restructuring, internal heterogeneity along the type of employment has developed into intra-elass cleavage, constituting the core of working class heterogeneity debate. Preceding researches in Korea confirmed the trend of polarization in material conditions of existence between regular workers and irregular workers, and also the hierarchy and exclusiveness in their social relations. However, they have has not com: up with a debate concerning whether working class can overcome its intra-class cleavage so as to achieve its internal integration and class formation. In order to investigate its possibility, this study aims to perform a comparative analysis of consciousness between regular workers and . irregular workers on the issue of irregular worker, which is the core of working class cleavage. Through questionnaire survey and in-depth interview with public sector union members of the KCTU, this study confirms the existence of working class cleavage and analyzes its cause and significance. First, although regular and irregular workers share awareness of irregular worker issues, they show difference in their positions regarding concrete solutions. This shows the existence of working class cleavage, which has rather been consolidated than resolved since the economic crisis. Second, the difference in view points between regular workers and irregular workers concerning concrete solution to the irregular worker situation, despite their similarity in awareness of irregular worker issues, is caused by the difference in material interests between regular and irregular workers. It is indeed that regular workers can tolerate the improvement of employment security and working conditions of irregular workers as long as it doesn't threat their own vested advantages. Third, regular workers showing distinction in concrete solutions, despite their homogeneity with irregular workers at the level of abstract principles, represents the ambivalence of regular workers' subjectivity. This shows a conflict between the individual-level rationality based on material interests and the class-level rationality founded on class principles. Fourth, the degree to which the individual-level rationality and the class-level rationality conflict in the subjectivity of regular workers is determined by whether the regular worker have joined a labor union and the characteristics of this union - the identity of interest group or the identity of class organization. This refers to a practical significance that democratic labor unions with class organization identity can contribute to overcoming intra-class cleavage and achieving class formation for the working class.