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Campling, Liam, Harrison, James, Richardson, Ben, Smith, Adrian and Barbu, Mirela (2021) South Korea's automotive labour regime, Hyundai Motors' global production network and trade‐based integration with the European Union. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 59 (1). pp. 139-166. doi:10.1111/bjir.12506 ISSN 0007-1080.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12506
Abstract
This article explores the interrelationship between global production networks (GPNs) and free trade agreements (FTAs) in the South Korean auto industry and its employment relations. It focuses on the production network of the Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) — the third biggest automobile manufacturer in the world — and the FTA between the EU and South Korea. This was the first of the EU's ‘new generation’ FTAs, which among other things contained provisions designed to protect and promote labour standards. The article's argument is twofold. First, that HMG's production network and Korea's political economy (of which HMG is a crucial part) limited the possibilities for the FTA's labour provisions to take effect. Second, that the commercial provisions in this same FTA simultaneously eroded HMG's domestic market and corporate profitability, leading to adverse consequences for auto workers in the more insecure and low‐paid jobs. In making this argument, the article advances a multi‐scalar conceptualization of the labour regime as an analytical intermediary between GPNs and FTAs. It also provides one of the first empirical studies of the EU–South Korea FTA in terms of employment relations, drawing on 105 interviews with trade unions, employer associations, automobile companies and state officials across both parties.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Automobile industry and trade , Automobile industry and trade -- Korea (South) , Automobile industry workers, Collective labor agreements -- Automobile industry , Hyŏndae Chonghap Sangsa (Korea), Business networks -- Korea (South) , Business networks -- European Union countries, Industrial relations -- Korea (South) , Free trade -- European Union countries, Free trade -- Korea (South) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Industrial Relations | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0007-1080 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 59 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 139-166 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/bjir.12506 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 November 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 November 2020 | ||||||||
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