From security to precariousness: The case of the Greek mass media sector in neoliberal times
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Dec 21, 2018
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Greece neoliberal times crisis mass media sector precariousness alternative economic processes social networks ‘old fashioned’ syndicalism
Abstract
The paper focuses on the way ex-mass media employees experienced a dramatic passage from safe employment to a precarious condition.
It is based on fourteen months ethnographic research (August 2012 to October 2013) in the closing premises of the ALTER TV Channel. In addition, fifteen semi–structured interviews were conducted with employees. In the concluding remarks a new type of working subject is questioned through a) the ‘reinvention’ of forgotten economic processes, b) the motivation of any social network to cope with precariousness and c) the critique of the so called ‘old fashioned’ syndicalism.
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Dalkavoukis, V., & Spyridakis, M. (2018). From security to precariousness: The case of the Greek mass media sector in neoliberal times. Social Cohesion and Development, 12(2), 115–128. https://doi.org/10.12681/scad.18958
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