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The Establishment of Labor Archive and Its New Development Strategy : An Attempt to Build Participatory Archive of the Institute of Labor History in SKHU

  • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
  • 2014, (41), pp.175-212
  • Publisher : Korean Society Of Archival Studies
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Chongkoo LEE 1,  Lee Jae Seong 1

1성공회대학교

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ABSTRACT

In 2001 a large amount of labor record have been donated from JeontaeilLabor Archive-Institute to SungKongHoe University(SKHU). Institute of LaborHistory in SKHU was established in the wake of the installation of thelabor archive. Development of oral archive raised the awareness of thevarious relationships between the use and production of labor record. Interviewees of oral testimony expressed dissatisfaction and the role of theresearchers was not sufficiently exhibited. Examining the main cases of Korea union movement history, we canfind contradictions between the use and production of labor recordclearly. Interval of interpretation and memory was too big between theparties of ‘democratic’ union movement in the 1970s. While among theparties who took part in Guro Alliance Strike of 1985, there is a groupthat remains in the “winner” in history on the one hand, but “loser” on theother without any reasonable criterion. Active intervention of the recordusers(researchers) is very limited. Among citizens or workers how will beresolved such “struggle of memory” in due process can not be seen. Thisis one of the reasons why labor archive is not rooted in the region. In this paper, I present a methodological alternatives for the production and use of records through the construction of participatory labor archive. Further, the reconstituted contents of the “documenting locality” strategy bycomplementing the theoretical part of the method of participation. Thestudy of local and locality requires a “scale” dimension that will make upthe identity recognition space, a memory and identity, a social relationshiprather than the dimension of the physical space. Alternative “documentinglocality” strategy will be able to contribute to solve the problems that occurbetween the production and use of the recording in labor archive.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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