‘1987 노동체제’에 대한 이해와 대안 모델의 탐색

This paper overviews the structural problems of the Korean labor regime and seeks the direction and content of alternative model. Labor regime is a dialectical process and its result consisting of structures and actions. I analyzed the characteristics of the 1987 labor regime and looked at the development and outcome of social dialogue as a soft labor politics for restructuring the labor regime. The features of the 1987 labor regime are as follows: unstable and cracked labor markets, weak social safety nets and labor reproduction structures, a hierarchically organized workplace system and opportunistic labor politics seeking short-term interests. Social dialogue in Korea began with in the form of ‘autonomous formative social dialogue’ to form new employment and labor order, passed through the period of ‘social dialogue as a response to overcome the economic crisis’ and plunged into a ‘mobilized type of social dialogue’ during the previous two conservative governments. An alternative labor regime should move toward the integration and efficiency of the labor market, stability of social safety net and labor reproduction, innovation of labor process and workplace system. Autonomous social dialogue based on mutual respect and trust among labor political actors should be activated for the transition to a new labor regime.