Wed, 2013-04-17 23:22 | 
Abstract
This doctoral project is entitled "The Matsaggos Cigarette Industry. Work and survival in Volos, 1918-1972", aims at investigating labour in the context of an industrial enterpise. The focal point is the workplace and its basic "vehicles" , the male and female workers, based on the study of the cigarette-industry archive. It focuses on labour history and gender relationships in the workplace, and is mainly based on the extensive and rich archives of the enterprise, as well as on the archival material concerning the cigarette industry in Greece on the whole during the 20th century. The aim of the study is to detect, describe and explain the labour "world", by adressing the following issues: what kind of works was carried out in the specific factory, in what ways and by whom; who and what factors regulated and defined the relations in the workplace, the division of labour, the payment, the pride, the power and the authority that were formed in the social relations in the workplace. Furthermore, I examine the profile of the workforce of the factory: the gender, the age composition, the geographical backround, as well as the each worker's years of empoyment in the factory. Lastly, I look into aspects and issues that pertain to the collective action and the labour protest of the male and female of the specific factory, such as strikes, sit-down strikes, riots or any other form of formal-informal movement of protest, resistance and demand.
