Book Reviews and Notices : Labour Problems in Greece. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE. (Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Office. 1949. Studies and Reports, New Series No. 12. Pp. viii, 381. $2.)

• Date: 01 March 1951
• Author: Alex Palamiotis
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295100400137
• Published date: 01 March 1951
• Subject Matter: Articles

159

Political

scientists,

as

well

as

interested

laymen,

are

urged

to

give

this

well-documented

and

highly

readable

book

their

attention.

It

may

not

be

the

final

word

on

the

subject-a

subject

that

still

awaits

its

Rappard-

but

it is

a

distinct

contribution

to

our

not

too

well-stocked

store

of

knowledge

of

a

kind

of

social

and

economic

experimentation

that

may

prove

the

way

for

a

fruitful

realization

of

what

is

inherent

in

the

word

&dquo;democracy.&dquo;

Los

Angeles

State

College.

AKE

SANDLER.

Labour

Problems

in

Greece.

INTERNATIONAL

LABOUR

OFFICE.

(Geneva,

Switzerland:

International

Labour

Office.

1949.

Studies

and

Reports,

New

Series

No.

12.

Pp.

viii,

381.

$2.)

At

the

invitation

of

the

Greek

government,

the

International

Labour

Office

sent

to

Greece

a

six-member

mission

to

&dquo;undertake

a

full

exam-

ination

of

the

Greek

Labour

laws

and

to

make

recommendations

to

the

Royal

Hellenic

Government

for

their

revision.&dquo;

The

mission

spent

two

months

in

Greece

(October-November,

1947).

Two

years

later

the

ILO

published

a

report

which

is

not

an

effort

to

solve

the

labor

problems

of

Greece,

but

only

to

state

them..The

report

includes

ninety-four

mod-

erate

and

conditional

recommendations

for

the

improvement

of

the

labor

and

social

security

legislation

and

the

necessary

administrative

mechan-

ism.

The

report

is

a

comprehensive

study

of

the

labor

legislation,

social

insurance,

and

trade

unions

in

Greece,

and

is

a

valuable

and

scholarly

contribution

toward

the

understanding

not

only

of

the

labor

problems

but

also

of

the

political

and

economic

problems

in

that

country.

It

is

a

useful

work

both

for

the

student

of

Greek

affairs

and

the

student

of

contemporary

labor

problems.

This

book

is

of

special

interest

to

the

American

reader

because

Greek

political

and

economic

questions

are

important

to

the

United

States,

since

Greece,

as

a

&dquo;western

democ-

racy,&dquo;

has

depended

for

the

past

several

years

on

American

aid.

The

study

of

the

Greek

labor

problems

was

very

practical;

and

it

was

based

on

the

assumption

that

where

there

is

the

will

for

improvement,

the

existing

mechanism

is

usually

more

than

efhcient.

This

makes

the

report

valuable

to

the

Greek

people,

because

it

is

one

of

the

few

reports

on

Greece

whose

recommendations

and

proposals

can

be

carried

out.

A

great

many

foreign

missions

have

visited

Greece

since

World

War

II

(mostly

at

the

invitation

of

the

Greek

government),

and

all

of

them

have

submitted

proposals

as

sure

panaceas

to

cure

the

country

of

every-

thing

that

plagues

the

Greek

people.

Agricultural,

police,

health,

eco-

nomic,

and

any

other

imaginable

missions

(all

of

them

sincere

in

their