Growth Borrowed from the Future : An Inquiry into South Korean Development and Social Reproduction Crisis
- 주제어 (키워드) social reproduction , reproductive labour , social reproduction crisis , state-led development , social reproduction policy , neoliberal capitalism , South Korea , socio-demographic crisis
- 발행기관 서강대학교 일반대학원
- 지도교수 장대업
- 발행년도 2024
- 학위수여년월 2024. 2
- 학위명 석사
- 학과 및 전공 일반대학원 글로벌한국학
- 실제URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/sogang/000000076897
- UCI I804:11029-000000076897
- 본문언어 영어
- 저작권 서강대학교 논문은 저작권 보호를 받습니다.
초록
This paper attempts to conduct a theoretical inquiry and examine the South Korean social reproduction and reproductive crisis context. Starting from an initial inquiry about productive and reproductive work, this paper extends its analysis into the dynamic relation between capitalism and social reproduction, built upon a complex network of socio-economic processes. In the process, this paper drives upon one of feminist politics' discourses of social reproduction, which is Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) and pays attention to the necessary yet contradictory relation between social reproduction and capitalism, which eventually entails a social (reproduction) crisis or social reproductive contradictions of capitalism (Fraser, 2016). By utilising the SRT theoretical framework on social reproduction and the crisis of social reproduction, this paper goes on to analyse the root cause of the social reproduction crisis that prevails in South Korean society by taking a closer look at two historical moments: 1) The state-led development and industrialisation, and 2) The 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. Throughout the analysis, this paper discovers a contradictory dynamic: South Korean capitalist developmental state and its economic goals stood in opposition to social reproduction. From this contradictory dynamic, contradictions happened and escalated into a social reproduction crisis prevailing in South Korea.
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INTRODUCTION 1
A. Background 1
B. Objectives 2
CHAPTER 1: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION CRISIS AT GLANCE 5
A. Care crisis Or social reproduction crisis 5
B. South Korea's social reproduction crisis as "biological reproduction" crisis 9
CHAPTER 2: INTO SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND ITS RELATION WITH THE CAPITALIST ECONOMY 14
A. Social reproduction at the contextual level 14
B. Delve into the relations of social reproduction and capitalism 16
I. Social Reproduction Feminism and Marx's analysis of the capitalist mode of production and "hidden abode" of production 16
II. Autonomist Marxism, Wages for Housework, and Criticism 19
III. Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) and analysis on social reproduction of labour power 21
IV. Constitutive and contradictory impulses of capitalism: contradictory relations between capital and social reproduction of labour power 25
V. Care crisis or contradictory relations of social reproduction to neoliberal capitalism 27
CHAPTER 3: SOUTH KOREA'S SOCIAL REPRODUCTION SCHEMA IN STATE- LED DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIALISATION 33
A. Historical background of the state-led development and industrialisation (1960s- 1980s) 34
B. Social reproduction arrangement and policy regime in state-led development 36
C. Relegation of social reproduction responsibilities to families and women 40
D. Contradictory relations between economic growth and ordinary citizens' social reproduction as pre-social reproduction crisis 46
CHAPTER 4: SOUTH KOREAN SOCIAL REPRODUCTION CRISIS IN NEOLIBERAL CAPITALIST REGIME 48
A. Historical background of the 1997-1998 Asian (IMF) financial crisis and neoliberal adjustment 49
B. Neoliberal capitalism and the absence of social reproduction policy: contradiction turned into crisis 51
C. Contradictory relations of social reproduction to South Korea's capitalism: contemporary situation 53
CONCLUSION 60
REFERENCES 64
