자영노동자의 노동조합 의식 연구: 임금노동자성의 영향을 중심으로

This paper is a study of self-employed workers’ attitudes toward labor unions. Self-employed workers refer to those who fall in between dependent employment and self-employment. Union attitudes are measured by the degree to which self-employed workers positively view union’s three instrumental roles, that is, union’s roles in labor protection, employment security, and wage increase. The study examines if their union attitudes differ by the degree to which they fulfill the standards of dependent employment. Using the Additional Survey on Employment Status of the Korea Labor & Income Panel Study (KLIPS) Wave 21 (2018), this study, first, classifies those in the “grey zone” between dependent employment and self-employment, and verifies their degree of dependent employment. After that, it analyzes their union attitudes by means of linear regression model. The results show that self-employed workers view unions’ instrumental roles more positively when they have more employment characteristics. In addition, their union attitudes are not significantly different from “pure” standard employees’. The findings of this study imply that it would be natural and desirable for self-employed workers to represent their interests through unions if they are legally classified as “employee-like” workers proportional to their degree of dependent employment.