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Labour relations - South Korea
A project to communicate the worker injustices which occur but which often go undocumented. Communication takes place through internet and fax machines and the distribution of education and video documentaries through unions. People are trained so that they can tell their own stories and document worker abuse through videos.
Communication Strategies
A worldwide network of workers' organization communicate through fax and internet. South Korean workers are creating their own video images which are distributed through unions and an underground system to expose workers and abuses to them.
Development Issues
Worker equality and justice
Key Points
Documented abuses of workers' rights are created by the workers themselves and transmitted through the union organizations. Union organizations are used as distributors due to various censorship laws. Students and workers were documented by the group during a strike in January 1997.
Partners
Labour News Production, Labour unions, and underground network within South Korea.
Sources
Communications and Social Change: Forging Strategies for the 21st century. A report on a Rockefeller foundation. April 21-25, 1997.
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