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| Tekijä: | Gialis, S. |
| Otsikko: | Restructuring strategies, firms' size and atypical employment in the local productive system of Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Lehti: | Industrial Relations Journal
2011 : SEP, VOL. 42:5, p. 412-427 |
| Asiasana: | employment industrial concentration case studies economic geography Greece |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Utilizing an extended case study in six industrial sectors in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece this article emphasizes that the transformation of the local production system is based on the locally specific interaction of two interrelated restructuring progresses: a 'weak' strategy mainly associated to small/medium-sized labour intensive businesses and a 'strong' strategy fairly related to large, increasingly internationalised firms. Both strategies are found to be in need of cheap labour while they utilize the locally diversified atypical employment pools, in different ways however. In parallel, they presuppose a subordinated integration into subcontracting production systems, expanding towards the regional, Balkan and the international arenas. The paper highlights that restructuring strategies in Thessaloniki, particularly the prevailing 'weak' one, do not seem to change the conditions of backwardness for the local productive system. Apart from leaving local structures weak in innovative production, automated machinery and non-hierarchical networking practices they largely base on diffused, less paid atypical employment. |
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