ABSTRACT
The 'conventional view' does not limit disparagement of the contribution made by women workers in the 1970s to the non-existence of theoretical framework or ill-conceived and incoherent collective actions. At the core of the conventional assessment of the activities of Korean women labour activists in the 1970s lies the conviction that they were merely bargaining agents intent upon securing a larger slice of the economic cake. Even taking into account the harsh and unforgiving political and economic atmosphere of the time, in comparison with their male counterparts, the women had so much to gain and so little to lose. Western feminist writers have turned their attention to the circumstances of the Asian working woman of the 1970s and have elected to cast her firmly in the role of the victim. Korean women have been included in the conventional western feminist analyses of the plight of working women throughout Asia and, by theories on remedial measures are equally general in character.
