This paper explores seasonal hospitality work and its workforce in Greece.
It interrogates both the prevailing working conditions and the living conditions identifying variations and commonalities with respect to workers’ orientations and relationship with hospitality. Mobilities in hospitality work are examined from the micro-level of workforce attitudes and behaviours, while at the same time discussed in terms of their implications at the meso level of jobs and work environments. This analysis, set in the political economy context of post crisis Greece is relevant to the academic debate in tourism studies because it provides further nuances and insights about the structural imperatives of mobility from the perspective of the worker experience.
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Gregoris Ioannou is a Reader at the Faculty of Business and Law, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has previously worked at the University of Sheffield and the University of Glasgow. He holds degrees from LSE (BSc, MSc) and Warwick (PhD). His research utilises political sociology and political economy frameworks to examine power dynamics in employment relations and their cultural and communicational forms. His work was published in numerous journals including ‘Economic and Industrial Democracy’ and ‘European Journal of Industrial Relations’ and his latest research monograph (Routledge, 2021) is titled ‘Employment, trade unionism and class: the labour market in Southern Europe since the crisis’.
Professor Vassilis Monastiriotis is Director, Hellenic Observatory Centre; Eleftherios Venizelos Chair of Contemporary Greek Studies, Professor of Political Economy.
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