THE “IZOLEAN FAMILY” PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND PATERNALIST PRACTICES IN THE HOME ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE INDUSTRY IZOLA, 1951-1977
Abstract
The emergence and rapid growth of the Greek home electrical appliance ("white goods") industry after WWII was accompanied by labor management practices based on non salary benefits. In the case of the Izola factory in Kallithea, Attica, such practices included, among others, profit sharing, private insurance, housing and other loans, educational programs and suggestion boxes. These practices, promoted in the company publications, were situated in an openly paternalist context, where workers and employees were expected to view themselves as members of the "Izolean family", headed by the "grandpa" of Izola, Panayiotis Drakos. The "Izolean family" functioned as a "contract", by which non salary benefits were exchanged for the desired work ethic, in a context characterized by an expanding market for products as well as a restrictive labor market.
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IOANNIDIS, S. (2025). THE “IZOLEAN FAMILY”: PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND PATERNALIST PRACTICES IN THE HOME ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE INDUSTRY IZOLA, 1951-1977. Mnimon, 41, 125–150. https://doi.org/10.12681/mnimon.41233
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