At the class with study topic “Oral History” with the professor Antonis Antoniou collected 19 biographical narrative interviews from the students of I.A.K.A. during the winter semester of 2018 for the subject of deindustrialization. The aim of the research was to record the changes in working life and their meaning by men and women who worked in factories during the last decades and experienced the closure of their business, the deregulation of employment after 1990, unemployment or even forms of resistance. of employees in these changes. The narrators interviewed were born between 1944 and 1972 and their working lives cover most of the period from the 1980s to the present, while the older ones have worked in a factory during the junta and the post-colonial era. That means that the biographical narratives have a great interest in the study of deindustrialisation, as the narrators' experiences often cover both an era of "prosperity" with abundant employment opportunities in the mid-1980s and the personal and professional immersion that took place in the following decades, and especially in the years of the crisis. The rapid changes in the world of work are mainly due to the deregulation of labor relations in the 1990s and the closure of many factories due to competition with cheap products from China, Bulgaria, etc. and due to the relocation of Greek companies to neighboring countries during the crisis. The interviews mainly concern metal and clothing companies that closed after 2006. Most of them concern the industrial area of Volos, but there are also interviews for Thessaloniki (Coca-Cola). Larissa (Raptex, BIOTEXTIL, Olympus), Lamia (carpentry) and Xanthi (sugar factory). The sample includes 15 men and 4 women. The interviews were conducted on a guided basis.

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Face-to-face interview