TITLE:
From the Tobacco Shop to the Cigarette Factory: Technological Changes, Gender and Surveillance in a Greek Cigarette Firm in the Early 20th Century
AUTHORS:
Thanasis Betas
KEYWORDS:
Cigarette Industry, Technological Changes, Gender, Labor
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.5 No.2,
April
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: How did the technology and the mechanization of production affect the organization and division
of labor in Matsagos cigarette industry in the city of Volos? Who worked in the machinery and in
the new labor departments and what was their role? Did the technological equipment play a role
in the formation of professional specialties which existed in the factory? How are the technical and
gender labor division interweaved? These specific changes of the field of cigarette-makers are
going to be traced through our case.