Union responses to the rise of precarious youth employment in Greece

Kretsos, Lefteris

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2338.2011.00634.x

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“…Research also identifies that unions do little to engage young workers who feel detached from the labour movement, with a sense of division born from contract differences as well as the wider political and economic climate where austerity impacts heavily on the young (Kretsos, 2011). As such, understanding more about young people experiencing frequent entry to and exit from work and between contract forms, and how they might be better engaged in strategies and campaigns for progressive social and economic change, is a critical future direction for research.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Established, accelerated and emergent themes in flexible work research

Bessa

Tomlinson

2017

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Flexible labour markets, flexible working arrangements (FWAs) and motivations behind their use are established and expanding strands of sociology of work and employment relations research. This article provides a review of key themes and debates connected to workplace flexibility between 2000-2015 utilizing research located in leading sociology of work, employment relations, industrial relations and HRM journals, in addition to key texts published during this time period. We establish that flexible work research is a growing area of research and focus our analysis on identifying key themes categorised as established, accelerated and emergent. We conclude with areas of contention yet to be resolved and possible avenues for future directions in flexible work research, noting a disconnection between macro analyses of flexibility at the economic level and the focus on flexible working-time arrangements (FWAs) at the workplace level. Furthermore we observed few quantitative multi-level modelling analyses or multi-methods research designs. To that end, analyses that can synthesise these literatures would enhance the field, as might innovations in methodological approaches which advance multi-level modelling and multi-method designs to give multiple and dynamic perspectives.

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Section: Emergent Themesmentioning

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“…Research frequently highlights the challenges facing young people who hope to achieve well paid, skilled work, or those simply hoping for find stable employment in countries such as Spain (García-Pérez and Muñoz-Bullón, 2011) and Greece (Kretsos, 2011).…”

Section: Emergent Themesmentioning

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Established, accelerated and emergent themes in flexible work research

Bessa

Tomlinson

2017

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…In Greece, where social democratic praxis came late on the scene after the period of military dictatorship, we observe the development of "independent" unions situated to the left of their social democratic or "clientelist" counterparts (Zambarloukou, 2006;Kretsos, 2011).…”

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Beyond ‘political economism’: New identities for unions in Western Europe?

2012

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This article engages critically with Richard Hyman"s work on trade union identity and European integration. There is a sympathetic review of Hyman"s contribution to the debate on these topics over the past two decades alongside a critique of Hyman"s approach which highlights a range of weaknesses and contradictions which result from Hyman"s uncritical use of a range of categories and concepts taken from Regulation Theory. The authors question Hyman"s argument that developments in European trade unionism can be conceptualized adequately through an analysis of the development and crisis of "political economism": a dominant trade union identity that Hyman aligns with the development and crisis of Fordism. An alternative model for understanding the reorientation of European trade unions is presented based on a critical and dialectical conceptualization of the relationship between trade unions and capitalist development. This is used to construct a model of contemporary trade union reorientation along the dimensions of "accommodation" and "opposition" to neo-liberalism and "national" and "international" modes of organization and mobilization.

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“…Furthermore, historical and political conditions promoted a peculiar interconnection between first-class union leaderships and strong bourgeois political parties based on a post-dictatorship social democratic consensus and an "exchange of gifts," the price of which has been an increasingly precarious workforce (Ioannou, 2000;Kretsos, 2011). Other scholars maintain that trade unions were "colonized" by strong political parties that imposed their clientelistic logics through interpersonal connections with union leadership and distinctive organized trade union fractions (Lavdas, 2005).…”

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“…As Rainnie and Ellem (2006) have argued, the reorientation of trade union identities, approaches and strategies is strongly related to certain political realities and changes in the political balance of power. This path of analysis is essential for a country with a heavily politicized industrial relations environment that is undergoing serious and ongoing restructuring exercises, as is the case of Greece (Kretsos, 2011).…”

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Lost in the Ocean of Deregulation?

Kretsos

Vogiatzoglou

2015

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Résumé de l'article La crise financière de 2008 a eu un impact énorme sur l'économie et la société grecques. Depuis 2010, de grandes mobilisations populaires ont émergé contre les mesures d'austérité du plan de sauvetage que la troïka des créanciers (UE-BCE-FMI) a proposé aux gouvernements grecs. Pourtant, les syndicats institutionnels ont échoué à empêcher la réduction des revenus des salariés, à hauteur de 50% en 2013 par rapport à ceux de 2008. En outre, ils furent largement incapables de confirmer leur rôle de leader dans les mobilisations des classes ouvrières et des salariés. Dans cet article, nous examinons les raisons de l'échec des syndicats institutionnels à répondre de manière adéquate au défi de l'austérité. Nous considérons que l'explication de cet échec réside dans les défis et les problèmes génériques auxquels les syndicats contemporains sont confrontés -dont la littérature internationale a documenté le sujet -, ainsi que dans les particularités et les caractéristiques spécifiques du contexte socio-politique grec. Ensuite, nous étudions les alternatives proposées par des groupes de militants et des travailleurs de la base, par exemple, des associations de quartier formées par des travailleurs, des syndicats d'entreprise composés par des travailleurs précaires et des entreprises autogérées en état d'occupation. Après avoir identifié les points forts de leur contribution, ainsi que les problèmes et les défis auxquels ils sont confrontés, nous concluons qu'une approche diversifiée et innovante est requise, au nom du mouvement ouvrier, afin de simultanément tenir compte et exploiter toute source de pouvoir ouvrier. L'article conclut qu'un processus de rapprochement stratégique entre les syndicats traditionnels et radicaux est nécessaire en Grèce. After identifying the strong points of the latter's contributions, as well as the problems and challenges they are facing, the authors conclude that a diversified and innovative approach is required on the part of the labour movement in order to simultaneously address and exploit all sources of workers' power. the emergence of radical unionism in large urban areas is a fortunate development, but cannot be transplanted as a recipe for success in itself. A process of strategic rapprochement between mainstream and radical unions in Greece is necessary.

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Union responses to the rise of precarious youth employment in Greece

Cited by 39 publications

References 25 publications

Established, accelerated and emergent themes in flexible work research

Established, accelerated and emergent themes in flexible work research

Beyond ‘political economism’: New identities for unions in Western Europe?

Lost in the Ocean of Deregulation?

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