Experience

Publications

• Austerity, Labour Market Reform and the Growth of Precarious Employment in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Global Labour Journal

  This article examines the relationship between structural reforms commonly referred to as austerity and the growth of precarious labour in Greece. It argues that, in contrast to the proponents of labour market flexibility, the liberalisation of labour markets, employment protection systems, social protection systems and collective bargaining institutions have not increased employment in Greece or minimised the growth of precarious employment. Rather, liberalising structural reforms have resulted in the creation of the very precarity its proponents claim is the product of rigid labour markets, and they have failed to significantly reduce existing levels of unemployment and increasing employment rates.

• Austerity, Labour Market Reform and the Growth of Precarious Employment in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Global Labour Journal

  This article examines the relationship between structural reforms commonly referred to as austerity and the growth of precarious labour in Greece. It argues that, in contrast to the proponents of labour market flexibility, the liberalisation of labour markets, employment protection systems, social protection systems and collective bargaining institutions have not increased employment in Greece or minimised the growth of precarious employment. Rather, liberalising structural reforms have resulted in the creation of the very precarity its proponents claim is the product of rigid labour markets, and they have failed to significantly reduce existing levels of unemployment and increasing employment rates.

• Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in Seventeenth Century England

  Lexington Books

  This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property—with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good—groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly-constituted forms of political and economic power. Drawing on recent re-examinations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions.

• Austerity, Labour Market Reform and the Growth of Precarious Employment in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Global Labour Journal

  This article examines the relationship between structural reforms commonly referred to as austerity and the growth of precarious labour in Greece. It argues that, in contrast to the proponents of labour market flexibility, the liberalisation of labour markets, employment protection systems, social protection systems and collective bargaining institutions have not increased employment in Greece or minimised the growth of precarious employment. Rather, liberalising structural reforms have resulted in the creation of the very precarity its proponents claim is the product of rigid labour markets, and they have failed to significantly reduce existing levels of unemployment and increasing employment rates.

• Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in Seventeenth Century England

  Lexington Books

  This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property—with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good—groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly-constituted forms of political and economic power. Drawing on recent re-examinations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions.

• From Competitive Corporatism to Embedded Austerity: Neoliberalism and Structural Reform in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies

  This paper examines the transformation collective bargaining institutions and the weakening of labour market protection in Greece under the auspices of austerity since the onset of the Eurozone Crisis. The paper situates the reforms associated with the Troika backed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) within the broader context of labour market reform in Greece and Europe. It examines the impact of these reforms on the Greek labour market and its system of industrial relations. Neoliberal structural reforms have resulted in the disorganized decentralization of collective bargaining and the weakening of employment protection. Sectoral and occupational collective bargaining has all but collapsed and Greek trade unions significantly weakened. On top of this, new forms of Eurozone governance have been implemented to further entrench neoliberalism and embed austerity in national level institutions. The research contributes to debates on labour market flexibility and the neoliberal transformation of Southern European labour markets in the context of the Eurozone crisis. Using the most recent data, the paper demonstrates how labour market and collective bargaining reforms have little to do with reducing public sector spending and more to do with disciplining Greek labour.

• Austerity, Labour Market Reform and the Growth of Precarious Employment in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Global Labour Journal

  This article examines the relationship between structural reforms commonly referred to as austerity and the growth of precarious labour in Greece. It argues that, in contrast to the proponents of labour market flexibility, the liberalisation of labour markets, employment protection systems, social protection systems and collective bargaining institutions have not increased employment in Greece or minimised the growth of precarious employment. Rather, liberalising structural reforms have resulted in the creation of the very precarity its proponents claim is the product of rigid labour markets, and they have failed to significantly reduce existing levels of unemployment and increasing employment rates.

• Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in Seventeenth Century England

  Lexington Books

  This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property—with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good—groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly-constituted forms of political and economic power. Drawing on recent re-examinations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions.

• From Competitive Corporatism to Embedded Austerity: Neoliberalism and Structural Reform in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies

  This paper examines the transformation collective bargaining institutions and the weakening of labour market protection in Greece under the auspices of austerity since the onset of the Eurozone Crisis. The paper situates the reforms associated with the Troika backed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) within the broader context of labour market reform in Greece and Europe. It examines the impact of these reforms on the Greek labour market and its system of industrial relations. Neoliberal structural reforms have resulted in the disorganized decentralization of collective bargaining and the weakening of employment protection. Sectoral and occupational collective bargaining has all but collapsed and Greek trade unions significantly weakened. On top of this, new forms of Eurozone governance have been implemented to further entrench neoliberalism and embed austerity in national level institutions. The research contributes to debates on labour market flexibility and the neoliberal transformation of Southern European labour markets in the context of the Eurozone crisis. Using the most recent data, the paper demonstrates how labour market and collective bargaining reforms have little to do with reducing public sector spending and more to do with disciplining Greek labour.

• Embedding Neoliberalism in Greece: the transformation of collective bargaining and labour market policy in Greece during the Eurozone crisis

  Studies in Political Economy

  This paper examines the current struggles between labour and capital in Greece within the broader context of attempts to integrate Southern Europe into the neoliberal project of European Monetary Union (EMU). In the absence of institutional mechanisms, such as institutions of competitive corporatism, to restrain organized labour and embed neoliberalism in Greece, the austerity measures imposed on Greece by the Troika of the European Union (EU), European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are precipitating an internal devaluation of labour costs through the institutional transformation of collective bargaining institutions and the flexibilization of labour markets, and further embedding neoliberalism through the creation of National Competitiveness Boards.

• Austerity, Labour Market Reform and the Growth of Precarious Employment in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Global Labour Journal

  This article examines the relationship between structural reforms commonly referred to as austerity and the growth of precarious labour in Greece. It argues that, in contrast to the proponents of labour market flexibility, the liberalisation of labour markets, employment protection systems, social protection systems and collective bargaining institutions have not increased employment in Greece or minimised the growth of precarious employment. Rather, liberalising structural reforms have resulted in the creation of the very precarity its proponents claim is the product of rigid labour markets, and they have failed to significantly reduce existing levels of unemployment and increasing employment rates.

• Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in Seventeenth Century England

  Lexington Books

  This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property—with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good—groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly-constituted forms of political and economic power. Drawing on recent re-examinations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions.

• From Competitive Corporatism to Embedded Austerity: Neoliberalism and Structural Reform in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies

  This paper examines the transformation collective bargaining institutions and the weakening of labour market protection in Greece under the auspices of austerity since the onset of the Eurozone Crisis. The paper situates the reforms associated with the Troika backed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) within the broader context of labour market reform in Greece and Europe. It examines the impact of these reforms on the Greek labour market and its system of industrial relations. Neoliberal structural reforms have resulted in the disorganized decentralization of collective bargaining and the weakening of employment protection. Sectoral and occupational collective bargaining has all but collapsed and Greek trade unions significantly weakened. On top of this, new forms of Eurozone governance have been implemented to further entrench neoliberalism and embed austerity in national level institutions. The research contributes to debates on labour market flexibility and the neoliberal transformation of Southern European labour markets in the context of the Eurozone crisis. Using the most recent data, the paper demonstrates how labour market and collective bargaining reforms have little to do with reducing public sector spending and more to do with disciplining Greek labour.

• Embedding Neoliberalism in Greece: the transformation of collective bargaining and labour market policy in Greece during the Eurozone crisis

  Studies in Political Economy

  This paper examines the current struggles between labour and capital in Greece within the broader context of attempts to integrate Southern Europe into the neoliberal project of European Monetary Union (EMU). In the absence of institutional mechanisms, such as institutions of competitive corporatism, to restrain organized labour and embed neoliberalism in Greece, the austerity measures imposed on Greece by the Troika of the European Union (EU), European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are precipitating an internal devaluation of labour costs through the institutional transformation of collective bargaining institutions and the flexibilization of labour markets, and further embedding neoliberalism through the creation of National Competitiveness Boards.

• Enduring Austerity: Memoranda Politics and its impact on Labour in Greece

  Confronting Crisis and Precariousness: Organized Labour and Social Unrest in the European Union Rowman and Littlefield)

• Enduring Austerity: Memoranda Politics and its impact on Labour in Greece

  Confronting Crisis and Precariousness: Organized Labour and Social Unrest in the European Union (Rowman and Littlefield)

• Austerity, Labour Market Reform and the Growth of Precarious Employment in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Global Labour Journal

  This article examines the relationship between structural reforms commonly referred to as austerity and the growth of precarious labour in Greece. It argues that, in contrast to the proponents of labour market flexibility, the liberalisation of labour markets, employment protection systems, social protection systems and collective bargaining institutions have not increased employment in Greece or minimised the growth of precarious employment. Rather, liberalising structural reforms have resulted in the creation of the very precarity its proponents claim is the product of rigid labour markets, and they have failed to significantly reduce existing levels of unemployment and increasing employment rates.

• Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in Seventeenth Century England

  Lexington Books

  This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property—with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good—groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly-constituted forms of political and economic power. Drawing on recent re-examinations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions.

• From Competitive Corporatism to Embedded Austerity: Neoliberalism and Structural Reform in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies

  This paper examines the transformation collective bargaining institutions and the weakening of labour market protection in Greece under the auspices of austerity since the onset of the Eurozone Crisis. The paper situates the reforms associated with the Troika backed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) within the broader context of labour market reform in Greece and Europe. It examines the impact of these reforms on the Greek labour market and its system of industrial relations. Neoliberal structural reforms have resulted in the disorganized decentralization of collective bargaining and the weakening of employment protection. Sectoral and occupational collective bargaining has all but collapsed and Greek trade unions significantly weakened. On top of this, new forms of Eurozone governance have been implemented to further entrench neoliberalism and embed austerity in national level institutions. The research contributes to debates on labour market flexibility and the neoliberal transformation of Southern European labour markets in the context of the Eurozone crisis. Using the most recent data, the paper demonstrates how labour market and collective bargaining reforms have little to do with reducing public sector spending and more to do with disciplining Greek labour.

• Embedding Neoliberalism in Greece: the transformation of collective bargaining and labour market policy in Greece during the Eurozone crisis

  Studies in Political Economy

  This paper examines the current struggles between labour and capital in Greece within the broader context of attempts to integrate Southern Europe into the neoliberal project of European Monetary Union (EMU). In the absence of institutional mechanisms, such as institutions of competitive corporatism, to restrain organized labour and embed neoliberalism in Greece, the austerity measures imposed on Greece by the Troika of the European Union (EU), European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are precipitating an internal devaluation of labour costs through the institutional transformation of collective bargaining institutions and the flexibilization of labour markets, and further embedding neoliberalism through the creation of National Competitiveness Boards.

• Enduring Austerity: Memoranda Politics and its impact on Labour in Greece

  Confronting Crisis and Precariousness: Organized Labour and Social Unrest in the European Union Rowman and Littlefield)

• Enduring Austerity: Memoranda Politics and its impact on Labour in Greece

  Confronting Crisis and Precariousness: Organized Labour and Social Unrest in the European Union (Rowman and Littlefield)

• Cicero, Roman Republicanism and the Contested Meaning of Libertas

  Political Studies

  Despite growing interest in neo-Roman republicanism, few republicans examine the character of Roman republicanism, either in its constitutional practice, its social relations or in the works of its primary defenders. This article examines Cicero's two systematic dialogues of political philosophy – De Re Publica and De Legibus – in order to assess the status of liberty as ‘non-domination’ in these texts. It argues that, far from liberty as non-domination being the operative conceptual ideal in Cicero's republicanism, concordia along with equity as a form of proportionate equality that depends upon the recognition of substantive differences of status and power serves as the foundation of his republican political thought. This form of ordered liberty is offered as an alternative to the conception of liberty as a form of ‘non-domination’ that Cicero attributes to the democracies of ancient Greece and the populist project of popular reformers such as Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.

• Austerity, Labour Market Reform and the Growth of Precarious Employment in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Global Labour Journal

  This article examines the relationship between structural reforms commonly referred to as austerity and the growth of precarious labour in Greece. It argues that, in contrast to the proponents of labour market flexibility, the liberalisation of labour markets, employment protection systems, social protection systems and collective bargaining institutions have not increased employment in Greece or minimised the growth of precarious employment. Rather, liberalising structural reforms have resulted in the creation of the very precarity its proponents claim is the product of rigid labour markets, and they have failed to significantly reduce existing levels of unemployment and increasing employment rates.

• Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in Seventeenth Century England

  Lexington Books

  This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property—with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good—groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly-constituted forms of political and economic power. Drawing on recent re-examinations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions.

• From Competitive Corporatism to Embedded Austerity: Neoliberalism and Structural Reform in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis

  Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies

  This paper examines the transformation collective bargaining institutions and the weakening of labour market protection in Greece under the auspices of austerity since the onset of the Eurozone Crisis. The paper situates the reforms associated with the Troika backed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) within the broader context of labour market reform in Greece and Europe. It examines the impact of these reforms on the Greek labour market and its system of industrial relations. Neoliberal structural reforms have resulted in the disorganized decentralization of collective bargaining and the weakening of employment protection. Sectoral and occupational collective bargaining has all but collapsed and Greek trade unions significantly weakened. On top of this, new forms of Eurozone governance have been implemented to further entrench neoliberalism and embed austerity in national level institutions. The research contributes to debates on labour market flexibility and the neoliberal transformation of Southern European labour markets in the context of the Eurozone crisis. Using the most recent data, the paper demonstrates how labour market and collective bargaining reforms have little to do with reducing public sector spending and more to do with disciplining Greek labour.

• Embedding Neoliberalism in Greece: the transformation of collective bargaining and labour market policy in Greece during the Eurozone crisis

  Studies in Political Economy

  This paper examines the current struggles between labour and capital in Greece within the broader context of attempts to integrate Southern Europe into the neoliberal project of European Monetary Union (EMU). In the absence of institutional mechanisms, such as institutions of competitive corporatism, to restrain organized labour and embed neoliberalism in Greece, the austerity measures imposed on Greece by the Troika of the European Union (EU), European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are precipitating an internal devaluation of labour costs through the institutional transformation of collective bargaining institutions and the flexibilization of labour markets, and further embedding neoliberalism through the creation of National Competitiveness Boards.

• Enduring Austerity: Memoranda Politics and its impact on Labour in Greece

  Confronting Crisis and Precariousness: Organized Labour and Social Unrest in the European Union Rowman and Littlefield)

• Enduring Austerity: Memoranda Politics and its impact on Labour in Greece

  Confronting Crisis and Precariousness: Organized Labour and Social Unrest in the European Union (Rowman and Littlefield)

• Cicero, Roman Republicanism and the Contested Meaning of Libertas

  Political Studies

  Despite growing interest in neo-Roman republicanism, few republicans examine the character of Roman republicanism, either in its constitutional practice, its social relations or in the works of its primary defenders. This article examines Cicero's two systematic dialogues of political philosophy – De Re Publica and De Legibus – in order to assess the status of liberty as ‘non-domination’ in these texts. It argues that, far from liberty as non-domination being the operative conceptual ideal in Cicero's republicanism, concordia along with equity as a form of proportionate equality that depends upon the recognition of substantive differences of status and power serves as the foundation of his republican political thought. This form of ordered liberty is offered as an alternative to the conception of liberty as a form of ‘non-domination’ that Cicero attributes to the democracies of ancient Greece and the populist project of popular reformers such as Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.

• Free-men, Free Labour and neo-Roman Conceptions of Liberty in Early Modern England

  Contributions to the History of Concepts

  This paper examines the development of a popular discourse of liberty as independence emerging out of the agrarian struggles between peasants and landlords over the course of the late mediaeval and early modern periods. This popular discourse, relating to the aspirations of the dependent peasantry for free status, free tenure and free labour, articulated a conception of independence that overlapped with the emerging neo-Roman or republican discourses of the seventeenth century. However, whereas the republican tradition of liberty focuses almost exclusively on the arbitrary powers of the monarchical state, the popular tradition emphasizes the importance of freedom from the arbitrary powers of landlordism. This class distinction is important, for while neo-Roman conceptions of liberty are used to protect the ―lives, liberties and estates‖ of the individual – and therefore the rights of private property – the popular discourse of liberty, emphasising the liberty of ―Estates and Persons and Labours,‖ was used to attack the rights of private property in the name of the freedom to protect one‘s labour from the power of landlords. After a brief introduction to the republican conception of liberty and a discussion the peasant dependency in England, the work of Gerrard Winstanley is presented as an innovative seventeenth century synthesis of popular and republican discourses of freedom as independence from the arbitrary powers of exploitation.