Workshop for looking back the Korean women workers’ movement and seeking for alternative women workers’ movement

<Workshop for looking back the Korean women workers’ movement and seeking for alternative women workers’ movement>
 

On November 5, 2008, we at the Korean Women Workers Association (KWWA) held a workshop for looking back the Korean women workers’ movement and seeking for an alternative women workers’ movement.  In this workshop, why and how the alternative women workers’ movement had been launched was discussed based on the evaluation of our 20 year activities.  The workshop was prepared by our internal small research group, ‘research team for enhancing high quality alternative women workers’ movement despite earning less’ who studied for the past 8 months.  Based on their discussion, they presented ‘the necessity for propelling an alternative women workers’ movement and finding the ways’ (Lim Youn Ok from the KWWA, and Kang Yangmi from the SWWA) and had a good chance to discuss with other KWWA’s nationwide staff persons.

 

The participants in the workshop carried out discussion by region after the presentation on the themes: 1. describing the moment when you felt the necessity for propelling an alternative women workers’ movement while working for our organization 2. sharing your ideas and action plans to activate and boost up the alternative women workers’ movement including seeds for exchanging hope, alternative money.  However, any team did not join an optional discussion topic: 3. the aims and strategies of women workers’ movement in face of neo-liberalism.  So, participants evaluated that the KWWA is stronger in practices rather than debates and theories. An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory.