Abstract
This article aims to investigate labor discourse based on anti-communism ideology on the period after Korean liberation before breakout of the Korean War. Political parties, social organizations and intellectuals understood the significance of production for building a new state and took attention to working mass including workers as main power in the economic revival and construction after the Korean liberation. Labor discourse was made and spread in the frame of ‘destruction vs. construction’, ‘patriotic act vs. betrayal to the country’ and ‘democracy vs. anti-democracy’. The US Army Military Government, right wing force and the Great Korean Independent Labor League made their effort to create ‘anti-communist worker’. After general strike of September in 1946, the Great Korean Independent Labor League changed itself into ‘anti-communism trade union = democratic trade union’ through its labor discourse. The US Army Military Government inspired workers to hold working spirit and patriotism, and endeavored after creating model worker with its policies. After establishing Korean government, Labor discourse changed and then it was produced and circulated in the frame of building a breakwater against communism.
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