21세기 노동의 귀환 - 노조시민주의와 노동기반 공익재단의 사례 -

This article proposes ‘union citizenship’ as a new vision of labor in the 21st century that can overcome the overlapping labor crises of our time, and aims to compare and analyze the typological characteristics of labor-based public interest foundations, which can be said to be the most evolved form of union citizenship. Union citizenship is a new vision that adapts to the era of great transformation characterized by the reflexivity and dissolution of modernity, and a new paradigm that responds to the labor crisis. The logic of union citizenship reflects the awareness that labor in the 21st century can build expanded solidarity beyond isolation and exclusion only through civil society reconstruction. Union citizenship is realized by linking the politics of production or the politics of the workplace with broader civil society issues or by combining the values, systems, and activity patterns of labor unions and civil society. Union citizenship, which has the characteristics of pluralism, publicness, privacy, legitimacy, mainstreamness, and responsibility, is a strategy that mainstreams the civic identity of labor unions by expanding the publicness of labor to the realm of civil society solidarity. In this paper, labor-based public interest foundations are viewed as highly evolved forms of union citizenship and analyzed by dividing them into four types. The analysis of the four types used the Public Mutual Growth Solidarity Fund, the Financial Industry Public Interest Foundation, the Office Finance Ubuntu Foundation, and the Jeon Tae-il Foundation as examples. The criteria for categorizing the types were whether the financial base was limited to a specific labor union or employer or whether it was expansive without limitation, and whether the roles of each fund contributor were clearly divided. Based on this, union citizenship was categorized into the labor solidarity type, labor-management joint type, labor-management inclusive type, and commemorative project type.