North Korea's new capitalists and their workers: Business practice and labor relations. Issue 3 (September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lankov, Andrei; Ward, Peter; Yoo, Ho-yeol; Kim, Ji-young
• Is Part Of: Communist and post-communist studies. Volume 50:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 157
• Page End: 167
• Publication Date: 2017-09
• Subjects: North Korea -- Labour -- Management -- Transition economy -- Recruitment; Communism -- Periodicals; Post-communism -- Periodicals; Communisme -- Périodiques; Postcommunisme -- Périodiques; Communism; Post-communism; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 320.53205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2017.06.001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-067X

Abstract

Abstract: Over the last two decades, North Korea has gone through a remarkable, though incomplete, transformation. Markets have proliferated and have largely supplanted the moribund state economy. This article discusses labor relations in North Korea's nascent private sector. It is based on interviews with a number of North Korean entrepreneurs who now reside in the South.