1st Edition
Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class The Story of Two Self-Managed Factories
By Goran Music
Copyright 2021
288 Pages
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Central European University Press
Workers' self-management was one of the unique features of communist Yugoslavia. Goran Musi? has investigated the changing ways in which blue-collar workers perceived the recurring crises of the regime. Two self-managed metal enterprises, one in Serbia another in Slovenia, provide the frame of the analysis in the time span between 1945 and 1989. These two factories became famous for strikes in... Read more
Figures and Tables, Abbreviations, Acknowledgments, INTRODUCTION, CHAPTER ONE. TWO ROADS TO SELF-MANAGING SOCIALISM, CHAPTER TWO. FACTORY STRUCTURES AND EVERYDAY LIFE UNDER ASSOCIATED LABOR, CHAPTER THREE. SHADES OF BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS, CHAPTER FOUR. THE DRAGGING CRISIS, 1979–1986, CHAPTER FIVE. BREAKING THE PACT: WORKERS, LIBERALS, AND NATIONALISTS AGAINST THE STATUS QUO, CHAPTER SIX. MOBILIZATIONS AT THE BOTTOM— REALIGNMENTS AT THE TOP, 1986–1988, CHAPTER SEVEN. WORKERS IN THE STREETS, CONCLUSION, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Goran Music is a research fellow at the Research Platform for the Study of Transformations and Eastern Europe, University of Vienna.
