경합하는 정체성, 남성성, 그리고 계급: 1970년대 거대 조선사업장 노동자들의 사례

The paper is a try to seek an explanation on the 'silence' of workers in the heavy industries during the 1970s. For this purpose I try to reveal their desire, frustration, motivation, and their individual and collective identities. This paper analyzes the oral testimonies of the workers who worked at the Hyundai Heavy Industry, a gigantic shipyard in Korea. Many workers described themselves fair-minded, pursuing improvement or perfection, very achievement oriented persons. Their life stories tends to be success stories or a heroic biography and this tendency is prevail among the ex-supervisor who have strong 'manager identity'. On the other hand, workers who describe themselves as 'seeking justice' are relatively small and they always are alone and isolated in their stories. Oral testimonies reveal that the competition among workers to earn the recognition from the company and managers were very severe and not only the conformist but also the resistant workers were involved in it. These stories partly explain why relative 'industrial peace' was possible in the heavy industries in 1970s despite the prevalence of the discontent and minor resistance against the harsh, dangerous working environment and violent, oppressive labor control. It was possible since the workers' resentment were atomized and most workers were competing each other for the shabby upward ladder for manual worker.