Protest movement and politics: Greek trade unionism before the dictatorship (1962-1967)
Abstract
Despite the considerable progress made during the last decade, the study of the Greek labor movement is still at its beginnings. Seeking to fill some of the gaps existing in the comparative literature and provoke much needed debate, this paper has two goals. The first part offers a concise comparative formulation of the labor movement’s broad historical-structural characteristics and its developmental trajectory. The second, more extensive part explores the impact of the trade-union movement on political developments during the crucial five-year period preceding the dictatorship. In particular, it deals with: (a) the evolution of the trade-union opposition inside the movement’s internal institutional space; (b) the interrelationship between this opposition on the one hand, and the protest movement and political conjuncture on the other; and (c) the role of labor tactics as a factor which helps explain the inability of the labor movement to prevent the imposition of the dictatorship. Although this is not part of the central argument, the paper ends with an extensive bibliographical note on recent works which have sought to conceptualize the impact of the dictatorship on contemporary unionism
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Σεφεριάδης Σ. (2017). Protest movement and politics: Greek trade unionism before the dictatorship (1962-1967). Greek Political Science Review, 12, 5–34. https://doi.org/10.12681/hpsa.15125
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