Divided workers: Social relations between contract and regular workers in a Korean auto company

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 507-530

  Lee, Byoung Hoon ^a   Frenkel, Stephen J ^b,c  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Australian Graduate School of Management   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auto industry; Co worker relations; Contingent workers; Contract workers; Discrimination; Korea; Moral exclusion; Workplace politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 6044221491     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017004045548     Document Type: Article

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