In the literature in English, the prevailing view on Korean unions during the economic developmental period of the 1970s judged unions¡¯ lack of representative capacities as well as their exceptionally slow growth patterns as constrained chiefly by the state-led macro-political environment....

In the 1990s, Korean enterprise unions have faced radical changes in personnel and work organisation policies in the wave of employer-led enterprise restructuring, accelerated in particular after the national economic crisis of 1997. This study empirically and theoretically examines whether...

On the basis of firm-level case studies, this paper examines the actual performance of university education and in-firm training for engineers in large Korean manufacturing firms. University education fails to meet the actual demands for skills at the firm level, while in-firm training fails to...