Greek Labour Relations in Transition a Global Context

The book investigates industrial relations in Greece comparatively in the last decades, covering current and historical issues. The sociological with other institutional, political and social aspects are combined. Special reference is made to the transition to the Memorandum with the E.U. and I.M.F. and its effects on Greek industrial relations. The book investigates Greek industrial relations in a global context at different periods. Combining sociological, institutional, political and social aspects, it discusses industrial relations from statism that prevailed up to the ‘80s, to policies after the early ‘90s requesting modernisation and democratic neocorporatism. It also analyzes the dramatic overthrow of the institutional and real balance in the labour market after the conclusion of the Memorandum with the E.U. and I.M.F. and the great recession of the last six years.