This contribution offers an ethnographic study of biographical narratives and everyday identifications amongst workers and the unemployed in deindustrialized, acutely crisis-stricken West Piraeus. Against the backdrop of Greece’s severe socioeconomic crisis and the growing popularity of the extreme right, Bithymitris examines the reconstruction of workers’ identities and changing national and occupational self-images in a former ‘working-class citadel’ west of Athens.