주변부 노동자 이해대변을 위한 비노동조합적 시도:‘준노조’의 한국적 개념화를 위한 일분석

Vulnerable labour groups(peripheral workers) have been expanded in the recent Korean society while employment patterns are being diversified and labour markets are being polarized. Representating the interests of those groups is limited by means of the traditional frame of labor-management relations. Under this circumstance, new types of organizations are emerging to protect the interests and rights of the peripheral labour in the middle field between trade union and civil socity. This study aims to analyze these attempts with a conceptual frame of ‘Quasi-Union’ and tries to adapt it to the current Korean experiences. The three organizations analyzed in this study have recently emerged; are functioning in various fields to overcome the weakness of peripheral labour; and have found meaningful ways to represent their rights and interests. Since those are limited due to the non-union form in terms of their impacts, they should try to overcome the limits by seeking solidarity with external resources such as trade union or non-governmental organizations. A support for these ties is required to fill the gap in representing the interests of peripheral labour based on quasi-union organizations. Picking up the common functioning of the different practices of interest representation and applying the ‘quasi-union’ concept for them, this study explores a possibility to theorize it both practically and academically in Korea.