Approaches to the Post-WWII Labour-Based Social Economy of Greece

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Author(s): George O. Tsobanoglou (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Sustainable Economic Growth and Regional Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): George M. Korres (University of Aegean, Greece), Elias Kourliouros (University of Aegean, Greece)and Maria P. Michailidis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2458-8.ch001

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Economics & Economic Theory / Economics and Economic Theory

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Abstract

The current crisis in Greece, an EU member for over 30 years, has brought to the surface the character of the Greek politico-administrative system as it handles employment, migration and associated forms of social protection. The lack of a unified national labour system does not allow the formation of a national system of employment (qualifications) and, hence, a way to overcome nepotism and the political (party) patronage system which defines labour relations, under the extra-ordinary political situation that emerged after World War II (WWII). This chapter explores this hidden reality defining the organisation of the employment system in Greece, its politico-administrative controls that seem to aim at ‘arresting' the emergence of a social economy. This leads to a hidden social economy of a fragmented private labour market, regulated separately from the secure “public” employment sector. This rather anachronistic and discriminatory system of political order of labour divides workers in Greece.

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