Unit:
Department of History and ArchaeologyLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Ioannidis Stefanos
Dissertation committee:
Ευάγγελος Καραμανωλάκης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας-Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Σεραφείμ Σεφεριάδης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Ιστορίας, Πάντειο
Μαρία Παπαθανασίου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας-Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Δήμητρα Λαμπροπούλου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας-Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Δήμητρα Κόφτη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ανθρωπολογίας, Πάντειο
Σπύρος Σακελλαρόπουλος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής, Πάντειο
Νίκος Σερντεδάκις, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Κοινωνιολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης
Original Title:
Το Κίνημα των Εργοστασιακών Επιτροπών, 1974-1981
Translated title:
The Factory Committees' Movement, 1974-1981
Summary:
The present PhD thesis attempts to study and analyze the workers’ strikes that took place in the industrial sector of the Greek economy between the Metapolitefsi (change-over) of July 1974 and the political change of 1981, when the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) assumed the government.
It is an analysis of the main characteristics of the particular strike wave, which include the organizing of workers on a factory level, with the creation of committees and unions, the propagation of demands concerning wage increases, better working conditions and freedom of unionizing, as well as the strikes of long duration.
The methodology of the research was based in the examination of the constitution of the new factory working class from the 1960s until the early 1970s, in the context of the overall growth and restructuring of the Greek industrial sector. Next, the research focuses on the promotion of workers’ demands in the new context of Metapolitefsi.
In terms of the primary sources used, the research was based, apart from the study of statistics and the Press, on the utilization of private document collections and on the conduction of interviews with former factory workers, who had taken part in the strikes.
The thesis concludes that the factory committees’ movement was a means of expression of the problems that factory workers had accumulated during the Colonels’ dictatorship (1967-1974). Metapolitefsi created a favorable environment for the promotion of workers’ demands, which became part of the attempt of “de-huntazation” (“apochountopoiisi”) of Greek society. The factory committees’ movement became one of the factors that transfused social content into the transition to democracy.
Main subject category:
History
Keywords:
work, industry, factories, social history, working class, movement, strike, strikes, dictatorship, metapolitefsi, 1974, 1967, 1981
Number of references:
110
