Korea’s Miracle and Crisis: What Was in It for Women?

Cho, Hyoung Jin; Zammit, Ann; Chung, Jinjoo; Kang, In-Soon

doi:10.1057/9780230524217_2

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“…Its South Korean case study, for example, emphasizes the relations among labour markets, social policy, trade agreement commitments, and responses demanded by the International Monetary Fund to the financial crises of 1997–98 [77]. Mexico actively embraced economic integration well before trade liberalization was entrenched through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).…”

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Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3)

Labonté

Schrecker

2007

Global Health

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Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health (SDH): broadly stated, SDH are the conditions in which people live and work, and that affect their opportunities to lead healthy lives.In the first article in this three part series, we described the origins of the series in work conducted for the Globalization Knowledge Network of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health and in the Commission's specific concern with health equity. We identified and defended a definition of globalization that gives primacy to the drivers and effects of transnational economic integration, and addressed a number of important conceptual and methodological issues in studying globalization's effects on SDH and their distribution, emphasizing the need for transdisciplinary approaches that reflect the complexity of the topic.In this second article, we identify and describe several, often interacting clusters of pathways leading from globalization to changes in SDH that are relevant to health equity. These involve: trade liberalization; the global reorganization of production and labour markets; debt crises and economic restructuring; financial liberalization; urban settings; influences that operate by way of the physical environment; and health systems changed by the global marketplace.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3)

Labonté

Schrecker

2007

Global Health

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“…The sectoral distribution of women's employment, the size of the firms in which they were employed, the occupations in which they were clustered and the nature of their contracts combined to ensure that both the direct benefits of employment and access to social welfare insurance were less advantageous for them. For example, corporate social welfare-which was an important source of welfare in the Republic of Korea prior to the 1997 crisis-was far more generous in the large firms, whereas the bulk of women workers were concentrated in small-and medium-sized firms that could illafford the same level of benefits (Cho et al 2004).…”

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Work and Welfare

Herrmann¹,

Brenner²,

Stadler³

2018

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“…The sectoral distribution of women's employment, the size of the firms in which they were employed, the occupations in which they were clustered and the nature of their contracts combined to ensure that both the direct benefits of employment and access to social welfare insurance were less advantageous for them. For example corporate social welfare-which was an important source of welfare in South Korea prior to the 1997 crisis-was far more generous in the large firms, whereas the bulk of women workers were concentrated in small-and medium-sized firms that could ill-afford the same level of benefits (Cho et al 2004).…”

Section: Paid Labour and Social Protection: The Historical Legacymentioning

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Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’

Hassim¹,

Razavi²

2006

Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context

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The past decade has witnessed a renewed interest in social policies, and some governments have increased social spending to soften the impacts of economic reform. These changes have come in the wake of widespread realization of the failure of the neoliberal economic model to generate economic growth and dynamism, and to reduce poverty. At the same time, processes of political liberalization have opened spaces for social movements in many parts of the developing world to articulate demands for more effective social policies that mitigate the effects of market failures and reduce inequalities. These contestations have coincided with a rediscovery of 'the social' in the policy oriented literature, widely understood to embrace the cluster of social and political institutions, norms, and relationships that define the boundaries of market exchange, reduce transaction costs and enhance social and political stability. Polanyi's (1957) seminal work that showed the market to be a political and social construct is widely _________ * We thank Alexandra Efthymiades for excellent research assistance, James Heintz for the preparation of tables, and Francie Lund and Silke Steinhilber for extensive comments on an earlier draft of this chapter.

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Korea’s Miracle and Crisis: What Was in It for Women?

Cited by 10 publications

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Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3)

Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3)

Work and Welfare

Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’

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