ABSTRACT
This paper discusses social class structure in Thessaloniki and the changes it suffered during the interwar period. The discussion stresses the importance of the sphere of production and uses a ‘materialist’ point of view to present an economic history of the city from the end of the Ottoman period to the Second World War, using as an analytical tool a three-fold division of economic activity into ancient, colonial, and capitalist, and also the social stratification of the city as it was interwoven with its ethnographic composition.
