Acknowledgements; Contents; Editor and Contributors; Acronyms; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Hell Joseon: Polarization and Social Contention in a Neo-liberal Age ; Wealth Concentration, Polarization and Contention; From rags to riches: Government-labour relations in Korean post-war history and the advent of -; Aims and Contribution; Argument; Book Overview; References; Chapter 2 Globalization, Democracy and Social Polarization in South Korea ; Introduction; Globalization and Democracy: Four Perspectives; The Neoliberal Argument: Globalization Promotes Democracy

The Democratic Globalization Argument: Democracy Facilitates GlobalizationThe Anti-globalization Argument: Globalization Hinders the Development of Democracy; Anti-globalist Democracy Argument: Democracy Impedes Globalization; Globalization and Social Polarization; Social Polarization in South Korea; Neoliberal Globalization and Social Polarization; Class Polarization; Polarization in Income Groups; Polarization in Education; Polarization in Employment between Regular and Irregular Workers; The Neoliberal Solution to Polarization Under the Lee Myung-bak Government

The Possibility of Resolving Social Polarization Under a Globalized EconomyNurturing the Middle Class; Welfare for Low-Income Workers; The Parallel Development of Growth and Welfare; References; Chapter 3 Democracy Disenchanted and Autocracy Glamorized in Korea ; Introduction; Authoritarian Economic Growth with Equity; Democratic Political Freedom with Socioeconomic Inequality; Attachment to Egalitarianism and Conception of the Paternalistic State; Critical of Dismal Government Performance and Distrustful of Democratic Legitimacy; Nostalgia for an Authoritarian Era

In Lieu of a Conclusion: Korean Democracy at a CrossroadsReferences; Chapter 4 Emerging Cleavages in Korean Society: Region, Generation, Ideology, and Class ; Inequality in Korean Society; The Missing Class Cleavage: Is Korea an Outlier?; Old and New Cleavages in Korea; Electoral Regionalism in South Korea; Research Design; Dependent Variable; Independent Variables; Statistical Analysis; Findings; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Korea Tripartism in Retrospect ; Introduction: Korean Tripartism as the Governance of Crisis?; Labour Governance Under Authoritarianism

Democratization and Labour Governance Post-1987The Aborted Tripartism Under Kim Young-Sam Government; The Tripartite Commission and the Social Pact of February 6, 1998; The Rough Road to Tripartism; Tripartism Under the Roh Moo-Hyun Government; Jobless Growth and Economic Bipolarization; Stagnant Tripartism; Tripartism Lacking Social Dialogue; The Future of Tripartism in South Korea: Where Should It Go?; Supply-Side Corporatism; Responsive Corporatism; Meso and Decentralized Corporatism; Concluding Remarks: Lessons from the Korean Experience of Tripartism; References