A Value Chain Analysis of Tobacco in Greece (1949-1981)

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.

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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 History
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete

Juan Carmona Zabala

Principal Investigator - Postdoctoral Researcher

Tryfonas Lemontzoglou

Postdoctoral Researcher

Nikolaos Alexis

Doctoral Researcher

Dimitrios Stergiopoulos

Doctoral Researcher

Publications

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Juan Carmona-Zabala

Institute for Mediterranean Studies
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Nikiforou Foka 130 & Melissinou
Rethymno, Crete 74100

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