韓國의 賃勞動史 : 日帝下의 勞動者狀態를 中心으로 = Conditions of Korean Laborers under the Colonial Rule of Japanese Imperialim

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

A historical reality-analysis of the dissolution of peasants, their exodus, and the formation process of modern wage lavorers in the colonization course of Korea by the invasion of Japanese imperialism is one of the problems that are indispensible to studying the development history of Korean capitalism.
Korea which had begun to be ruled by japanese Imperialism, was strengthened as a market for aqouiring foodland industrial raw materials, which Japan needed, and for commodity saling and investment for the development and reinforcement of Japanese capitalism, and as a military base for expanding into the Continent.
Under such a colonial policy laborers and peasants were, among others, the most exnloited class. Owing to the semi-feudalistic tenancy system under the Japanese agricultural policy, Koreans peasants were most severely exploited and persecuted by their landowners. More than 70 per cent of the total farmhouses cultivated less than 1 "ha" of small aravle land, and most of them, falling into straitened circumstances like the destitute and needy, could not help going bankrupt. On the contrary, parasitic great landowners who monopllized lots of land had increased in number, the stratum-differentiation of Korean peasauts had been critically deepened, and colonial deformed class-antagonism even more greatly accelerated.
The impoverishment of farm villages in reased the number of peasants leaving their tenant lauds and part of them, such as peasants cultivating burnt-away fields and habitants living in underground shacks, left their home and wandered about Manchuria or Japan etc., or concentrated in cities and were in a miserable plight to be reduced to wage laborers.
Thus the ruin of peasants and their stratum-differentiation were rapidly going on and various strata of peasauts had been converted into a pool of relative surplus population. This surplus population, accordingly, had become the greatest source that supplied colonial Korean industry with inexpensive labor force and had become one of the basic factors that operated heavily to render the material or working conditions of labor class unusual bad ones.
However, it was almost impossible to raise wages or to promote laborers status without eliminating such a colonial ruling system. The resistance of Korean people, especially Korean laborers, had been intensified and the Japanese authorities ignored laborers opposition fiercely by military and police suppression. yet the uprisings of Korean laborers, farmers, and students never stopped afterwards.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序言
• Ⅱ. 日帝의 韓國植民地 經濟政策
• Ⅲ. 日帝下의 賃金勞動者狀態
• Ⅳ. 結論