https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:28:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/migrant-domestic-workers-family-community-and-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/migrant-domestic-workers-family-community-and-crisis/ Continued]]> This article examines the consequences of the economic crisis in Greece on the families and community organizations of migrant domestic workers. After spending more than a decade in individualized low-status jobs, migrant women are facing the effects of the economy on their primary and secondary solidarity groups, families, and communities. The research suggests that although this tendency is not new, it has been greatly exacerbated by the ongoing recession and has resulted in the emergence of new forms and perceptions of family and community. These changes further undermine the social position of migrant women, who were one of the most atomized and vulnerable sectors of the workforce even before the advent of the economic crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-careers-of-migrant-domestic-workers-in-greece-perceptions-of-intra-occupational-mobility-and-status-differentiation-in-times-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:50 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-careers-of-migrant-domestic-workers-in-greece-perceptions-of-intra-occupational-mobility-and-status-differentiation-in-times-of-crisis/ Continued]]> This article examines the effects of the current recession in Greece on the careers of migrant domestic workers by tracing the changes in the way they understand their occupational and socioeconomic situation during the crisis. Through a comparative analysis, it is argued that the lack of career-track options for these domestic servants has complex ramifications that affect their perception of both themselves and their place in society. The findings indicate that the recession has triggered a negative shift in their workplace responsibilities and the tasks they are asked to perform. This study examines the qualitative aspects of their careers, highlighting a reversal in the values held by live-in and live-out domestic workers, as well as decreasing levels of discretion, intra-occupational mobility, and life expectations. Despite these changes for the worse, however, domestic workers remain deeply rooted in a framework of thought and action that only strengthens the negative tendencies of inter-occupational mobility, especially for those that cannot dissociate their self-images from the context of domestic work.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/resonance-of-solidarity-meanings-of-a-local-concept-in-anti-austerity-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:29 +0000 http://arc.local/items/resonance-of-solidarity-meanings-of-a-local-concept-in-anti-austerity-greece/ Continued]]> Scholarly approaches to the Greek crisis usually centered on its political character, tackle it as “a state of exception” or emphasize its “exceptional” features. Departing from a discussion on the nature of the crisis, in this article I examine social reactions to “it,” focusing on grassroots economic activity. I undertake a case study of a “solidarity economy” movement and from there I explore the wider political repercussions of this activity that has appeared in contemporary Greece where grassroots social welfare projects are organized in order to address hardships in the actors’ livelihoods. In this way, I explore the meaning of solidarity, a term that has become ubiquitous in the public discourse of contemporary Greece. Through an ethnographic study of the activities of a movement that organizes anti-middleman food distributions in Greece, I argue that such activities not only tackle the immediate effects of the crisis but also pose a conscious, wider critique to austerity politics. Activists’ appeal to solidarity economies is informed by their aim to formulate more efficient distribution cooperatives in the future.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-greek-crisis-2/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:08 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-greek-crisis-2/ https://toarcheio.org/items/the-recent-economic-crisis-in-greece-and-the-strategy-of-capital/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:08 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-recent-economic-crisis-in-greece-and-the-strategy-of-capital/ Continued]]> The deficit and public debt crisis in Greece, part of the expansion of the global crisis through the countries of the Economic and Monetary Union, raises questions about the existence of a common currency for national formations with different productivity, the specific role of financial capital in the overall conjuncture, and the maintenance of the hegemonic position of Germany within the EU. In Greece the problem of the deficit and the debt is employed as a bridgehead for the deployment of aggressive class policies. The effort is centered on rapid transfer of wealth from labor to capital—reduction in salaries, greater labor flexibility, loosening of restrictions on firing, reduction in pensions—with an intensity unprecedented in modern times. Through this project the Greek bourgeoisie calculates that it will acquire the capacity to deal with the pressures to which it is being subjected by capitalist formations of higher productivity.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/nemesis-from-the-cruelest-of-aprils-to-the-most-unpredictable-of-may-days/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:08 +0000 http://arc.local/items/nemesis-from-the-cruelest-of-aprils-to-the-most-unpredictable-of-may-days/ https://toarcheio.org/items/the-greek-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:07 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-greek-crisis/