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Gender and Abortive Capitalist Social Transformation

Semi-Proletarianization of South Korean Women

Department of Sociology, Seoul National University

While South Korean labor is generally described to have undergone a swift social transforma tion into the proletarian class amid rapid capitalist economic development, there has been a fundamental gender differentiation in this class restructuring process. South Korean women's insertion into the capitalist economy has ironically led to a massive expansion and preservation of their partially transformed social relations outside the formal corporate industrial sectors. Beneath the rapid numerical expansion and political aggrandizement of the proletarian class—mostly composed of men—there has been a protracted semi-proletarianization of women. While prole tarianization is an increasing tendency of South Korean women's social transformation, its limit in terms of both class composition and political efficacy is evident for all accounts.

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