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The purpose of this research project is to produce a historical account of the evolution of Greece’s tobacco sector in the period that spans between the end of the Greek Civil War (1949) and the country’s accession into the EEC in 1981. More specifically, the project addresses three bundles of questions related to a) the relations of power among stakeholders within the tobacco sector (transnational organizations, state institutions, organized labor, agrarian associations, firms); b) the distribution of economic activities related to tobacco production and commercialization across the Greek geography; and c) changes in technology and value-adding processes. The project addresses these questions in an integrated fashion and paying attention to different nodes along the value-adding chain: agricultural production, leaf processing and export, and cigarette manufacturing. The project will therefore contribute to a more detailed, concrete understanding of what Greece’s economic transformation looked like from the point of view of production and the groups that were involved in it.
Team
Our research team
Socrates Petmezas
Professor of Economic and Social Modern HistoryDepartment of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
Juan Carmona Zabala
Principal Investigator - Postdoctoral ResearcherTryfonas Lemontzoglou
Postdoctoral ResearcherNikolaos Alexis
Doctoral ResearcherDimitrios Stergiopoulos
Doctoral ResearcherConference
Web Seminar Series
«Commodities in History: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Case Studies»
Call for papers
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September - October 2022
Publications
Related publications
Αποθετήριο: Ψηφιοποιημένες Συλλογές του Ελληνικού Λογοτεχνικού και Ιστορικού Αρχείου (ΕΛΙΑ)
Articles for non-specialists
Peer-reviewed articles
Carmona-Zabala, Juan. "Cooperativism in a Dirigiste State: SEKE and the Reconstruction of Greece’s Tobacco Sector (1947–1967)." Journal of Modern Greek Studies, vol. 41 no. 2, 2023, p. 237-260. https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2023.a908559.
Carmona-Zabala, Juan. "Underfunded Modernization: Tobacco Producers and Agricultural Policy in Interwar Greece." Journal of Modern Greek Studies, vol. 39 no. 1, 2021, p. 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2021.0009.
Contact
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Juan Carmona-Zabala
Institute for Mediterranean Studies
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Nikiforou Foka 130 & Melissinou
Rethymno, Crete 74100
Email:
jcarzab@ims.forth.gr