노동의 디지털화와 근로자의 지위 변화에 관한 연구

In recent, digital information and communication technology(ICT) has accelerated in changing of production methods and work types. It substitutes old jobs and makes boundary-less of work, enhances monitoring and controlling in workplace. Also It creates new IT related jobs and improves work and life balance etc. In this paper, I have focused on the effects of emerging online digital work(platform work or crowd work, freelancer, and independent contractors etc.) and status changing of workers. These mediated new digital contingent workers don’t have legal rights of labor laws like minimum wage and social insurance protection, because they are not acknowledged as workers in labor laws, but considered as self-employed person or private businessman. So they have many economic and social difficulties in low compensation, poor working conditions, and exclusion in social insurances etc. I have reviewed background theories, phenomena and effects of work digitalization, changing of worker’s status, and suggested some protection ways for improvement. First, it needs to acknowledge them as quasi-workers between worker under subordinate employment relationships and business owners. So they should get limited rights of workers in labor relationships. Second, minimum level of incomes and limited social insurance (accidents and unemployment insurance) should be given for stable life of them. Third, it needs to be given basic work hours and guaranteed autonomous work environments for work and life balance.