Grassroots unionism in the context of economic crisis in Greece

Labor History

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-286

  Kretsos, Lefteris ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052552476     PISSN: 0023656X     EISSN: 14699702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2011.600530     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Alutto, Joseph A. and James A. Belasco. 'Determinants of Attitudinal Militancy among Nurses and Teachers'. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 27 (1974): 216-27.
2. Badigannavar, V. and J. Kelly. 'Why Are Some Union Organizing Campaigns more Successful than Others?' British Journal of Industrial Relations 43, no. 3 (2005): 515-35.
3. Bacharach, S., P. Bamberger and S. Conley. 'Professional and Workplace Control: Organizational and Demographic Models of Teacher Militancy'. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43, no. 5 (1990): 570-86.
4. Bacon, N. and P. Blyton. 'Militant and Moderate Trade Union Orientations: What are the effects on Workplace Trade Unionism, Union-Management Relations and Employee Gains?' International Journal of Human Resource Management 13, no. 2 (2002): 302-319.
5. Barling, J., C. Fullagar and E.K. Kelloway. The Union and Its Members: A Psychological Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
6. Batstone, Eric, Ian Boraston and Stephen Frenkel. Shop Stewards in Action. Oxford: Blackwell, 1977.
7. Blanchflower, G. David. 'A Cross-country Study of Union Membership'. British Journal of Industrial Relations 45, no. 1 (2007): 1-28.
8. Bryson, Alex and Raphael Gomez. 'Why Have Workers Stopped Joining Unions? Accounting for the Rise in Nevermembership in Britain'. British Journal of Industrial Relations 43, no. 1 (2005): 67-92.
9. Buttigieg, Donna, Stephen J. Deery and Roderick D. Iverson. 'Union Mobilization: A Consideration of the Factors Affecting the Willingness of Union Members to Take Industrial Action'. British Journal of Industrial Relations 46, no. 2 (2008): 248-67.
10. Clark, Paul. Building More Effective Unions. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
11. Turkish Source. 'Trade Unions and Employees: Results from a Quantitative Survey', Turkish Source, Athens: VPRC, 2008. http://www.vprc.gr/
12. Turkish Source. 'The agreed Action Plan of GSEE in the 34th Conference', Turkish Source issue 171, April, Athens, Turkish Source, 2010. http://www.inegsee.gr
13. Commission of the European Communities (CEC). Employment in Europe 2007. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2007a.
14. Commission of the European Communities (CEC). Promoting Young People's Full Participation in Education, Employment and Society. Brussels: COM 498, 2007b.
15. Commission of the European Communities (CEC). Employment in Europe 2010. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2010.
16. Clawson, Dan and Mary A. Clawson. 'What Has Happened to the US Labor Movement? Union Decline and Renewal'. Annual Review of Sociology 25 (1999): 95-119.
17. Clawson, Dan. The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2003.
18. Clawson, Dan. 'SEIU: How Democratic?'. Monthly Review, 2008, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/clawson200508.html (accessed December 10, 2010).
19. Cohen, Aaron. 'Attitudinal Militancy and Propensity to Strike among Unionized Engineers and X-ray Technicians'. Human Relations 45, no. 12 (December 1992): 133-66.
20. Cohen, Sheila. 'The 1968-1974 Labour Upsurge in Britain and America: A Critical History, and a Look at What Might Have Been'. Labor History 49, no. 4 (2008): 395-416.
21. Darlington, Ralph. 'Restructuring and Workplace Unionism at Manchester Airport'. British Journal of Industrial Relations 33, no. 1 (1995): 93-115.
22. Darlington, Ralph. 'Workplace Union Resilience in the Merseyside Fire Brigade'. Industrial Relations Journal 29, no. 1 (1998): 58-73.
23. Darlington, Ralph. 'Union Militancy and Left-Wing Leadership on London Underground'. Industrial Relations Journal 32, no. 1 (2001): 2-21.
24. Darlington, Ralph. 'Shop Stewards, Leadership, Left-Wing Activism and Collective Workplace Union Organisation'. Capital and Class 76 (2002): 95-126.
25. Darlington, Ralph. 'The Agitator 'Theory' of Strikes Re-Evaluated'. Labor History 47, no. 4 (2006): 485-509.
26. Darlington, Ralph. 'Leadership and Union Militancy: The Case of the RMT'. Capital and Class 98, no. 98 (2009): 3-32.
27. Economides, Spyros and Vasillis Monastiriotis, eds. The Return of Street Politics? Essays on the December Riots in Greece. London: The Hellenic Observatory-The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2009.
28. Fairbrother, Peter. Unions at the Crossroads. London: Mansell, 2000.
29. Flanders, Allan. Trade Unions. London: Hutchinson Gall, 1998.
30. Fosh, Patricia and Ed Heery. Trade Unions and their Members: Studies in Union Democracy and Organization. London: Macmillan, 1990.
31. Gall, Gregor. 'The Prospects for Workplace Trade Unionism'. Capital and Class 66 (1998): 149-57.
32. Gordon, M. David, Richard C. Edwards and Michael Reich. Segmented Workers-Divided Labor: The Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
33. Hyman, Richard. 'Union Renewal: A View From Europe'. Labor History 45, no. 3 (2004): 390-7.
34. IMF (International Monetary Fund). IMF Country Report Greece: Selected Issues May 2008. Washington, DC, no. 08/147, 2008.
35. Ioannou, A. Christos, 'Employment Regulation and Labour Relations in Greece', Hellenic Observatory, LSE. http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/hellenicObservatory/PowerPoint/IOANNOU%20%20LSE%20%20HELLENIC%20OBSERVATORY%20%20EMPLOYM%20REG%20%20%20LAB%20RELS%20IN%20GREECE%203%2011%202009.pdf (accessed December 21, 2009).
36. Jørgensen, E. Thomas. 'The Purest Flame of the Revolution: Working Class Youth and Left Wing Radicalism in Germany and Italy during the Great War'. Labor History 50, no. 1 (2009): 19-38.
37. Turkish Source [Undeclared Work and Legalization Issues of Migrants: The Challenge of Migration Policy]. Athens: Turkish Source, 2007.
38. Karamichas, John. 'The December Riots in Greece'. Social Movement Studies 8, no. 3 (2009): 289-93.
39. Turkish Source (1870-2001), [Stages of Greek Labour Movement (1870-2001)]. Athens: Turkish Source, 2008.
40. Kelly, John. 'Union Militancy and Social Partnership'. In The New Workplace and Trade Unionism, ed. P. Ackers, C. Smith and P. Smith, 77-109. London: Routledge, 1996.
41. Kelly, John. Rethinking Industrial Relations: Mobilization, Collectivism and Long Waves. New York: Routledge, 1998.
42. Kelly, John and Kerstin Hamman. 'General Strikes in Western Europe 1980-2008', paper presented at the Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, April 7-9, 2009.
43. Klandermans, Bert. 'Psychology and Trade Union Participation-Joining, Acting, Quitting'. Journal of Occupational Psychology 59 (1986): 189-204.
44. Klandermans, Bert. The Social Psychology of Protest. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
45. Turkish Source [The Panorama of Work Insecurity and Precarious Employment', Epoxi], http://entosepoxhs.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/episfaleia-ths-ergasias/ (accessed December 11, 2009).
46. Turkish Source [The Characteristics of the Greek Trade Union Movement-Divergence and Convergence with Europe]. Athens: Gutenberg, 2007.
47. Kretsos, Lefteris. 'Industrial Relations and Undeclared Work', EIROnline, 2004. http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2004/06/tfeature/gr0406104t.htm (accessed November 18, 2010).
48. Kretsos, Lefteris and Maria Markaki. Learn to Play Judo: Union Revitalization Strategies in Southern Europe and the '700 euros movement'. Paper presented at the 29th International Working Party for Labour Market Segmentation conference. Porto, Portugal, September 8-10, 2008.
49. Kretsos, Lefteris. 'The Effects of the Crisis on the Greek Construction Industry: From the Olympus Mountain to the Kaida Cliff' Construction Labour Research News, no. 3, http://www.clr-news.org/CLR-News/CLR%20News%203-2010.pdf (accessed May 11, 2010).
50. Kretsos, Lefteris. 'The Persistent Pandemic of Precariousness: Young People at Work'. In A Young Generation Under Pressure?, ed. J. Tremmel. New York: Springer, 2010.
51. Turkish Source [Young Workers and Employment], Turkish Source issue 148, Athens: Turkish Source, 2008.
52. Livanos, Ilias. 'The Wage-Local Unemployment Relationship in a Highly Regulated Labour Market: Greece'. Regional Studies 44, no. 4 (2010): 389-400.
53. Mantsios, Gregory. A New Labor Movement for a New Century. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998.
54. Martin, E. James. 'Predictors of Individual Propensity to Strike'. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 39 (1986): 214-227.
55. MacKenzie, Robert and Miguel Martinez Lucio. 'The Realities of Regulatory Change: Beyond the Fetish of Deregulation'. Sociology 39, no. 3 (2005): 499-517.
56. Mayer, C. Roger, H. James Davis and David F. Schoorman. 'An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust'. Academy of Management Review 20 (1995): 709-734.
57. Metochi, Melvina. 'The Influence of Leadership and Member Attitudes in Understanding the Nature of Union Participation'. British Journal of Industrial Relations 40, no. 1 (2002): 87-111.
58. Milkman, Ruth and Kim Voss. Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New York Movement. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press Cornell University, 2004.
59. Moody, Kim. Workers in a Lean World; Unions in the International Economy. New York: Verso, 1997.
60. Newton, A. Lucy and Lynn M. Shore. 'A Model of Union Membership: Instrumentality, Commitment, and Opposition'. Academy of Management Review 17 (1992): 275-98.
61. Ochel, W. and A. Rohwer. 'Reduction of Employment Protection in Europe: A Comparative Fuzzy-Set Analysis,' CESifo Working Paper Series. http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/1186004.PDF (accessed February 18, 2011).
62. OECD. 'Economic Survey of Greece'. OECD. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/57/24/38665552.pdf (accessed February 18, 2011).
63. OECD. 'Economic Survey of Greece'. OECD. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/61/43284926.pdf (accessed February 18, 2011).
64. Peck, Jamie. Work-Place: The Social Regulation of Labor Markets. New York: The Guilford Press, 1996.
65. Pollert, Anna. 'Spheres of Collectivism: Group Action and Perspectives on Trade Unions among the Low-paid Unorganized with Problems at Work'. Capital & Class 34, no. 1(2010): 115-25.
66. Pollert, Anna and Stephanie, Tailby. 'Young Workers, Vulnerability at Work and Union Organising'. Paper presented at 7th International Conference in Memory of Professor Marco Biagi, Modena, Italy, March 19-21, 2009.
67. Simms, Melanie. 'Union identities in post-industrial society: evidence from the UK'. Paper presented at 25th Annual Employment Research Unit conference, Cardiff University, September 13-14, 2010.
68. Sisson, Keith. 'Revitalizing Industrial Relations: Making the most of the institutional turn', Warwick paper on Industrial Relations. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/research/irru/wpir/wpir_85.pdf (accessed November 21, 2009).
69. Sverke, Magnus and Andres Sjöberg. 'Union Membership Behavior: The Influence of Instrumental and Value-based Commitment'. In Changing Employment Relations: Behavioral and Social Perspectives, ed. L.E. Tetrick and J. Barling, 229-54. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1995.
70. Thacker, W. James, Mitchell W. Fields and Laurie A. Barclay. 'Union Commitment: An Examination of Antecedents and Outcomes Variables'. Journal of Occupational Psychology 63 (1990): 33-48.
71. Turner, Lowell, Harry C. Katz and Richard W. Hurd. 'Revival of the American Labor Movement: Issues, Problems, Prospects'. Articles & Chapters. http://works.bepress.com/richard_hurd/15 (accessed June 18, 2010).
72. Turner, Lowell. 'From Transformation to Revitalization: A New Research Agenda for a Contested Global Economy'. Work and Occupations 32, no. 4 (2005): 383-99.
73. Upchurch, Martin, Graham Taylor and Andy Mathers. 'The Crisis of Social Democratic Unionism: The Opening up of Civil Society and the Prospects for Union Renewal in the United Kingdom, France and Germany'. Labor Studies Journal 34, no. 4 (2009): 519-42.
74. Visser, Jelle. 'Union Membership Statistics in 24 Countries'. Monthly Labor Review 129, no. 1 (2006): 38-49.
75. Voss, Kim and Rachel Sherman. 'You Can't Just Do It Automatically: The Transition to Social Movement Unionism in the United States'. In Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study, ed. C. Yates and P. Fairbrother, 51-77. London: Routledge, 2003.
76. VPRC. 'The Greece Society and the Economic Crisis', 2010. http://www.vprc.gr/ (accessed June 18, 2010).
77. Wills, Jane. 'Organizing in Transport and Travel: Learning Lessons from TSSA's Seacat Campaign'. In Union Organizing: Campaigning for Trade Union Recognition, ed. G. Gall, 132-52. London: Routledge, 2003.
78. Wills, Jane and Melanie Simms. 'Building Reciprocal Community Unionism in the UK'. Capital and Class 28, no. 1 (2004): 59-84.