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.

Dimosthenis Daskalakis is Professor of Sociology at the Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He has been Member of the Senate, Dean and Head of the Faculty of Pedagogy, Director of the Social Sciences Research Laboratory and Director of the Humanistic Studies Section.