한국 여성 노동사 연구 서설 - 조선사회와 여성노동 -

• 영문명: A Preliminary Study on the History of Korean Women's Labor - Cotton Production and Women's Labor -
• 발행기관: 이화여자대학교 한국여성연구원
• 저자명: 이효재(Lee Hyo-Chae)
• 간행물 정보: 『여성학논집』제2집, 147~167쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 여성학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1985.12.01

영문 초록

Until recently the research interests concerning Korean women's status and role were mainly confined to the area of the institutional aspects and reproductive role of the family. This trend is particularly dominant in the historical study of Korean women's lives in the traditional society. The basic assumption of their approach was based upon the general theory of the sexual division of labor in that women labor is only related to the domestic sphere of the family and kinship system, serving the biological and the family reproduction. Under this assumption, women's productive labor is regarded to serve only the family subsistance, unrelated the social labor so that the issue for women's liberation has been women's participation in employment of the public wage sector. However, the reality of women's continued subordination in the family and deepening sex discrimination in employment and labor relations, in spite of increasing labor participation, has led us to realize that women's entry into the the socialized wage work alone is not a sufficient condition for liberating women. Consequently there has been theoretical efforts to explain the relation between the traditional patriachy and the modern capitalistic system, arousing analytical interests into the total structure of women's labor carried out in production and reproduction. There is a need to understand as to how the double role is imposed on women while their status is continuously subordinated and discriminated through the ideology and institution of the patriarchal family under the capitalistic industrialization, particularly of the third world society. In line with this general concern, this paper focuses on women labor in the s traditional Korean society, with particular purpose to explore into the labor patterns of cotton production carried out as women's home industry. Under the feudalistic mode of production in the Chosŏn Dynasty the family was the basic unit of economic production with obligation to pay taxes in kind, such as rice, cotton and other goods, and to serve the military and labor duties. Women's participation in the family production, particularly cotton production in picking, spinning and weaving carried out exclusively by women should not be regarded merely for the domestic use. Their production went beyond the private needs under the feudalistic demands and exploitation so that the history of cotton industry is viewed from the national economy of the Chosŏn Dynasty. Namely, women's labor production is viewed in terms of its significance in relation to the exploitative economy with intention to counter the assumption that women's labor in the traditional society is only for the family subsistance. However, this study is only a preliminary step toward exploring into the history of Korean women's labor in the precapitalistic society with a focus on cotton production which may lead us to understand the changing aspects of women's labor from the precapitalistic society to the industrial labor in the capitalistic society.

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서론

1. 이론적 입장과 연구의 범위

2. 조선의 사회경제구조와 여성

3. 면업생산(綿業生産)과 여성노동

결론

참고문헌

Abstract