Contested Meanings: Protection and Resistance in Labour Inspectors’ Reports in Twentieth‐Century Greece

Avdela, Efi

doi:10.1111/1468-0424.00060

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“…Turning to regular worker EPL, again worker protection has a long history, and is extensive as is to be expected given Greece's "Mediterranean capitalism" (Psychogios and Wood 2010) with its French civil law tradition. Thus, compensation for unfair dismissal was begun in 1920 (see Avdela 1997, Koukiadis 2009, at about the time that the Labour Inspectorate was established. At the time of our survey, Greece's regular worker EPL was strict (see Table 1), with high "procedural inconveniences" according to the OECD's measurements (2004, Table 2.A2.1), and a requirement for 6 months pay for compensation for unfair dismissal of long service (20 years) workers..…”

Section: Labour Regulation In Greecementioning

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The impact of Greek labour market regulation on temporary employment – evidence from a survey in Thessaly, Greece

Anagnostopoulos

Siebert

2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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This paper uses an original dataset for 186 workplaces in Thessaly (central Greece), to study consequences of Greece's strict employment protection law (EPL) and national minimum wage for temporary employment. We find higher temporary employment rates among workplaces that pay low wages close to the minimum.. We also find that EPL "matters", in particular, managers who prefer temporary contracts because temporary workers are less protected definitely employ more. Our findings thus support the view that a firm's HRM decisions regarding internal versus external allocation of tasks are influenced by labour regulation.

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Section: Labour Regulation In Greecementioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of Greek labour market regulation on temporary employment – evidence from a survey in Thessaly, Greece

Anagnostopoulos

Siebert

2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…17 Papastefanaki & Kabadayi (2020: 9-15); Papastefanaki & Potamianos (2021: 12-22). 18 Indicatively: Liakos (1993); Avdela (1989); Avdela (1997).…”

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The Institutional Framework for Work in the Mines of Greece: Occupational Health and Safety and the case of Lead Poisoning (1861-1940)

Papastefanaki

2022

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The paper investigates the historical formation of the institutional framework for work in the mines, regarding occupational health and safety. In a second level, the article focusses on the medical discourse in Greece about the specific occupational disease of lead poisoning and the role played by the state, mining companies and doctors in the recognition of the disease. In the formation of this framework and the regulations gender has played an important role. The definition of lead poisoning as an occupational disease given to the miners by specialist doctors was a political issue, which was determined in historical terms. Doctors used their scientific knowledge not only as a tool for the political economy of health, but also as a mean to combat the social question by reforms and total intervention in everyday life, work and leisure of the miners. In the case of the recognition of lead poisoning, a cultural confrontation which characterized the conflict between the educated middle class and the working class in Greece, since the end of 19th century, is apparent. The sources used are mainly the legislation, state reports by the Inspectorate of Mines and medical reports. El artículo investiga la formación histórica del marco institucional para el trabajo en las minas en Grecia, con respecto a la salud y seguridad ocupacional. En un segundo nivel, el artículo se centra en el discurso médico en Grecia sobre la enfermedad profesional específica del envenenamiento por plomo y el papel jugado por el Estado, las empresas mineras y los médicos en el reconocimiento de la enfermedad.La definición de la intoxicación por plomo como enfermedad profesional dada a los mineros por médicos especialistas fue una cuestión política, que se determinó en términos históricos. Los médicos utilizaron su conocimiento científico no sólo como herramienta para la economía política de la salud, sino también como medio para combatir la cuestión social mediante reformas e intervención total en la vida cotidiana, el trabajo y el ocio de los mineros. En el caso del reconocimiento del envenenamiento por plomo, se evidencia una confrontación cultural que caracterizó el conflicto entre la clase media culta y la clase obrera en Grecia, desde finales del siglo XIX.Las fuentes utilizadas son principalmente la legislación, informes estatales de la Inspección de Minas e informes médicos.

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“…The Labour Inspectorate is an important institution with a long history, being set up initially by the Venizelos government in 1910 (Avdela, 1997). Admittedly, enforcement cannot be tight since there are few inspectors, only about 400 in 2008 (Labour Inspectorate, 2008), leading Mihail (2004, p.552) to even wonder if "enforcement is obsolete".…”

Section: The Framework For Labour Regulation In Greecementioning

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The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment: Evidence from a New Survey

Anagnostopoulos¹,

Siebert²

2012

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Contested Meanings: Protection and Resistance in Labour Inspectors’ Reports in Twentieth‐Century Greece

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

The impact of Greek labour market regulation on temporary employment – evidence from a survey in Thessaly, Greece

The impact of Greek labour market regulation on temporary employment – evidence from a survey in Thessaly, Greece

The Institutional Framework for Work in the Mines of Greece: Occupational Health and Safety and the case of Lead Poisoning (1861-1940)

The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment: Evidence from a New Survey

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