https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:34:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/youth-policy-in-austerity-europe-the-case-of-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:27 +0000 http://arc.local/items/youth-policy-in-austerity-europe-the-case-of-greece/ Continued]]> This article addresses young people’s declining power in the Greek labour market due to the implementation of sweeping austerity policies and the consequent expansion of youth precarious employment and unemployment since the first bailout agreement in 2010. The analysis concludes that the crisis has acted as a catalyst for worsening of the employment situation of young people. Nevertheless, the social and employment disadvantage for youth has strong historical roots and it can be only partially explained by the crisis, as long before the crisis precarious forms of employment and unemployment rates were already higher than the adult levels. Finally, the article concludes that precarious youth employment and high youth unemployment levels are two sides of the same coin of poverty and social exclusion risk.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/grassroots-unionism-in-the-context-of-economic-crisis-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:10 +0000 http://arc.local/items/grassroots-unionism-in-the-context-of-economic-crisis-in-greece/ Continued]]> This article draws on empirical evidence from a trade union in the centre of Athens to explore the impact of a politically active membership and its dialectical relationship with union renewal. The examined union is considered as an exemplar for the Greek accounts of unionism in the sense that it has achieved considerable collective bargaining gains and it has organized successful membership mobilization stories. It is argued in the analysis that the success of this union stems from a strategy of making rank-and-file activists the very fabric of union’s organizing and mobilization activities. Further, trust issues between leaders, activists and ordinary members are significant in the increase of the likelihood of collective action.

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