본 연구의 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 1920년대 또래 집단인 미혼의 제사공장 여공들은 하루 종일 일과를 함께 했기 때문에 어떤 계기만 주어지면 단결권을 행사할 수 있는 여건이 마련되어 있었다. 그리고 그들은 봉건적인 여성관이 그대로 남아 있는 농촌과 가족을 떠나 여성으로서 처음 경제적으로 독립적인 삶을 경험하면서 주체적인 사람으로 성장하여 갔다. 이러한 의식들이 자신들이 처한 불합리한 노동조건의 개선을 공장주 측에게 당당하게 요구할 수 있게 해 쟁의를 일으킬 수 있었던 것이다. 1930년대에 들어서면 노동쟁의는 보다 더 격렬한 양상을 보인다. 식민지시대 제사공장 여공들은 기숙사제도, 작업장에서 통제, 강제저축 및 상벌제도 등을 통해 관리자들의 강력한 통제 하에 있었지만 오히려 이들은 작업과정에서 주체적인 여성으로서 성장함과 동시에 대작업장, 기숙사라는 조건 등은 이들이 단결할 수 있는 여건을 마련해 주었다고 할 수 있다. 그리고 이들38 식민지시대 제사공장 여공들의 근대적인 자아의식 성장과 노동쟁의의 변화과정은 유교적 여성관에서 완전히 벗어나지 못했지만 작업장에서 남공들과의 만남, 도시의 경험, 경제적인 독립, 노동쟁의 경험 등은 이들을 근대 자아의식을 가진 여성으로 성장하게 해주었다. 식민지 시대 제사공장 여공들은 지역 사회운동에 많은 영향을 끼칠 수 있는 충분조건을 가지고 있었으나 1930년대 후반 전시체제로 돌입하면서 더 이상 지역 사회에서 어떤 역할을 할 수 없었다. 이들의 영향력은 해방이 될 때까지 잠복된 상태로 있을 수밖에 없었다.

The results of this study are as follows. The silk-reeling factory girls, as an unmarried group of the same age, were able to exercise the right to organize, because they shared the daily routine all day and night. Also, they grew into subjective persons as they experienced an economically independent life for the first time as women leaving from their families and rural comunities, in which the feudal viewpoint to women was still alive. In this respect, their consciousnes allowed them to demand of the employers, improvement of the unreasonable working conditions in which they were put. Thus, the silk-reeling factory girls in the 1920s were able to be spontaneously brought about labor struggles without any external stimuli. Toward the beginning of the 1930s, labor struggles showed a lot more violent. After all, though they were under powerful control from supervisors through the dormitory system, workplace control, forced savings, and the system of prizes and penalties, the silk-reeling factory girls under Japanese colonialism were rather brought up into subjective women through working proceses, and at the same time the conditions provided by magnificent workplace and dormitories etc. provided them with chances to organize themselves. Also, though they were not able to completely escape from the Confucian view of women, they were allowed to be brought up into women with modern self-consciousness by meeting with male workers at their workplace, experiences in cities, economic independence, and experience of labor struggles. Though they were provided with a suficient condition under which they had influence on local social movements, the silk-reeling factory girls under the Japanese colonialism no more played a role in local societies as the wartime came into being in the second half of the 1930s. Their influence had necessarily been in the state of latency until the liberation.

The results of this study are as follows. The silk-reeling factory girls, as an unmarried group of the same age, were able to exercise the right to organize, because they shared the daily routine all day and night. Also, they grew into subjective persons as they experienced an economically independent life for the first time as women leaving from their families and rural comunities, in which the feudal viewpoint to women was still alive. In this respect, their consciousnes allowed them to demand of the employers, improvement of the unreasonable working conditions in which they were put. Thus, the silk-reeling factory girls in the 1920s were able to be spontaneously brought about labor struggles without any external stimuli. Toward the beginning of the 1930s, labor struggles showed a lot more violent. After all, though they were under powerful control from supervisors through the dormitory system, workplace control, forced savings, and the system of prizes and penalties, the silk-reeling factory girls under Japanese colonialism were rather brought up into subjective women through working proceses, and at the same time the conditions provided by magnificent workplace and dormitories etc. provided them with chances to organize themselves. Also, though they were not able to completely escape from the Confucian view of women, they were allowed to be brought up into women with modern self-consciousness by meeting with male workers at their workplace, experiences in cities, economic independence, and experience of labor struggles. Though they were provided with a suficient condition under which they had influence on local social movements, the silk-reeling factory girls under the Japanese colonialism no more played a role in local societies as the wartime came into being in the second half of the 1930s. Their influence had necessarily been in the state of latency until the liberation.

Silk-Reeling Factory Girls, Modern Self-Consciousness, Magnificent Workplace, Dormitories, Labor Struggles