Korea’s Quest for Economic Democratization

This text studies the sources of inequality in contemporary South Korea and the social and political contention this engenders. Korean society is becoming more polarized. Demands for 'economic democratization' and a fairer redistribution of wealth occupy center-stage of political campaigns, debates and discourse. The contributions offer perspectives on this wide-ranging socio-political change by examining the transformation of organized labor, civil society, the emergence of new cleavages in society and the growing ethnic diversity of Korea's population. Bringing together a team of scholars on Korea's transition and democratization, the story the books tells is one of a society acutely divided by the neo-liberal policies that accompanied and followed the Asian financial crisis.--

שנה

2017

שפה

English

הוצאה

Palgrave Macmillan

מהדורות

2

עמודים

303

ISBN

9783319570655

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata