'If You Can't, We Can!': Labour as Commons, the Solidarity Economy and Transformative Development on the Margins - A Case Study on the Worker-Recuperated Company, VIO.ME, in Thessaloniki, Greece

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dc.contributor.advisorPatroni, Viviana
dc.creatorPrassoulis, Anthony Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-27T16:43:31Z
dc.date.available2018-08-27T16:43:31Z
dc.date.copyright2018-05-29
dc.date.issued2018-08-27
dc.date.updated2018-08-27T16:43:31Z
dc.degree.disciplineDevelopment Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis Masters Thesis analyzes the worker occupation and takeover of the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece in a context of widespread business closures brought on by the economic crisis. The recuperation of the Vio.Me factory set in motion a deeply transformative process, as workers converted their bankrupted firm into a socially-oriented workers cooperative. In this paper, I explore the ways in which the worker recuperation has transformed the abandoned factory into a common space for building and sustaining community, and the labour activity of workers into a process of commoning. I argue that while the Vio.Me takeover initially emerged as a defensive reaction against unemployment and poverty, it has become an offensive class-based struggle against power and representation in the workplace and beyond in pursuit of autonomy and the commons. I aim to demonstrate how the commons and commoning constitute a vehicle for transformative community and human development from below.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35029
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subject.keywordsVio.Me
dc.subject.keywordsAutonomy
dc.subject.keywordsSelf-management
dc.subject.keywordsWorker-recuperated company
dc.subject.keywordsWorkplace democracy
dc.subject.keywordsWorkers' control
dc.subject.keywordsThe commons
dc.subject.keywordsCommoning
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity development
dc.subject.keywordsSocial and solidarity economy
dc.subject.keywordsThessaloniki
dc.subject.keywordsGreece
dc.title'If You Can't, We Can!': Labour as Commons, the Solidarity Economy and Transformative Development on the Margins - A Case Study on the Worker-Recuperated Company, VIO.ME, in Thessaloniki, Greece
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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