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This study was planned to investigate the organizational and institutional mechanism of production and maintenance of vulnerable workers. Specifically vulnerability of occupational injuries and illnesses may be induced by risk transfer that is one of the strategies of economic organization to make profit maximize.
The most economic activities can be accompanied by risk because that risk taking can produce benefit. Expected benefit of firm also can produce loss. But every firm should make account of benefit and loss so that he try to make reduction of expected loss. These trying to make reduction of loss can be emerged as risk transfer in order to make benefit maximize and loss minimize.
In Korea firms at the time of financial crisis 1988 tried to make reengineering and downsizing as economic rationalization in order to make production cost reduction. Some parts of production process were transferred to other firms based on contract with risk transfer.
Vulnerable workers to occupational injuries and illnesses were continuously produced and maintained by every firm based on motivation of profit making. These process also supported by cultural, organizational and institutional bases as social inequality for example sex segregation in the field of employment, etc. The strategies for protection of vulnerable workers may be focused on organizational , social and cultural aspects based on social security system.