Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism

Rory Archer is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Graz where he works as a researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies. Igor Duda is Assistant Professor at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, where he teaches at the Department of Humanities and works as a researcher at the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism. Paul Stubbs is a Senior Research Fellow at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia.

• Contents: Bringing class back in: an introduction, Rory Archer, Igor Duda and Paul Stubbs; What nationalism has buried: Yugoslav social scientists on the crisis, grassroots powerlessness and Yugoslavism, Ana Dević; The gastarbajteri as a transnational Yugoslav working class, Brigitte Le Normand; ‘Paid for by the workers, occupied by the bureaucrats’: housing inequalities in 1980s Belgrade, Rory Archer; Education, conflict, and class reproduction in socialist Yugoslavia, Jana Bacevic; Roma between ethnic group and an ‘underclass’ as portrayed through newspaper discourses in socialist Slovenia, Julija Sardelić; Of social inequalities in a socialist society. the creation of a rural underclass in Yugoslav Kosovo, Isabel Ströhle; ‘They came as workers and left as Serbs’: the role of Rakovica’s blue-collar workers in Serbian social mobilizations of the late 1980s, Goran Musić; ‘Buy me a silk skirt mile!’ Celebrity culture, gender and social positioning in socialist Yugoslavia, Ana Hofman and Polona Sitar; When capitalism and socialism get along best. Tourism, consumer culture and the idea of progress in Malo Misto, Igor Duda. Index.

'...the volume presents valuable new insights and manages to make a forceful argument for a new research agenda: we need to take the social more seriously when explaining how Yugoslavia worked (and how it failed).' Ulf BrunnbauerLeibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany Southeastern Europe 42 (2018)