Self-Management In Yugoslavia Research Articles

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Experiments in ownership: Immaterial labour and social property

Abstract In Yugoslavia, the social ownership of property was the driving force of self-management. At the same time, it was supposed to become the promoter of the free association of workers. Using the institution of ‘free artist’ as its focal point, this article analyses the forms of socialization that socially ownership of property made possible, and argues that artists’ groups were the true militants of self-management in Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia as World History: The Political Economy of Self-Managed Art

Branislav Jakovljević's study on performance and self-management in Yugoslavia and Armin Medosch's research on New Tendencies and post-Fordism share a number of analytical frameworks that the review argues partake in a broader shift towards political economy as a key framework for art historical inquiry. This shift elicits what could once again be called a world-historical perspective: both of these books anchor their narratives in post-war Yugoslavia but only in order to show that the telling of the story of Yugoslav art requires the telling of the story of the world, a story that is not simply an instance of global or transnational (art) history. Instead, these accounts affirm a certain political teleology; they (re)turn to Yugoslavia to recall something that is lost, a ruptural, future-bound history that never saw its future, and whose interrupted course they historicize, offering a recourse to historical understanding as a step towards a new strategy of resistance.

Branislav Jakovljević: Alienation Effects. Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945–91. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2016. 382 pp.

Branislav Jakovljević: Alienation Effects. Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945–91. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2016. 382 pp.

Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945–1991

Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945–1991

Branislav Jakovljević, Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945–91

Alienation Effects is a rich and versatile, compellingly written volume bringing together insights from history, politics, economics, performance, art, and philosophy. The book will be useful for both undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in the interplay between conceptual art and politics, and for scholars dealing with both performance and Balkan studies.

Workers' Councils in the Service of the Market: New Archival Evidence on the Origins of Self-Management in Yugoslavia 1948–1950

This article provides a new synthesis on the origins of self-management in Yugoslavia on the basis of new archival research. It rejects the dominant view in the historiography that self-management arose merely as an ideological justification for the split with Stalin's USSR in 1948. Rather, it demonstrates that the introduction of workers' councils was part of an elaborate effort on the part of the Communist leadership to return to its pre-1948, proto-‘reform Communist’ strategy that was remarkably open to interaction with the world market. This is shown to have implications for understanding Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe, the Cold War and Communism.

A Window and a Basement: Negotiating Hospitality at La Galerie Des Locataires and Podroom–The Working Community of Artists

The text proposes a comparative reading of two self-organized projects of the 1970s, Podroom — the Working Community of Artists, founded in 1978 by a group of artists in Zagreb, and La Galerie des Locataires, founded in 1972 in Paris by art historian Ida Biard. The analysis addresses the issue of work/labor as one of the key preoccupations of both projects, situating it within the theoretical perspectives that define the crisis of Fordist labor in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as its resolution in the transition to the post-Fordist era with its emphasis on immaterial labor, keeping in mind the specificities this transition implied in the context of Western capitalism and socialist self-management in Yugoslavia. Since confronting these questions in the examples of the two discussed projects involved primarily a search for autonomous and non-servile spaces — for art, work and life — they are examined here within an overarching conceptual framework of hospitality as discussed by Jacques Derrida.

Management versus Self-Management in Yugoslavia

Management versus Self-Management in Yugoslavia

Public Administration and Self-Management in Yugoslavia

Public Administration and Self-Management in Yugoslavia

Self-Management in Yugoslavia and the Developing World and National Income and Outlay in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia

Self-Management in Yugoslavia and the Developing World and National Income and Outlay in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia Self-Management in Yugoslavia and the Developing World. By Hans Dieter Seibeland Ukandi G. Damachi. London: Macmillan. 1982. 316 pp. Index. £20.00.National Income and Outlay in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia. By Jaroslav Krejci. London: Macmillan. 1982. 122 pp. Index. £15.00. F. B. Singleton F. B. Singleton 1Bradford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 1, Winter 1982, Pages 120–121, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620201 Published: 01 January 1982

Self-Management in Yugoslavia and the Developing World

Self-Management in Yugoslavia and the Developing World

1 The Social and Economic Basis of Socialist Self-Management in Yugoslavia

1 The Social and Economic Basis of Socialist Self-Management in Yugoslavia

A Longitudinal Study of the Distribution of Control in Yugoslav Organizations

The legal system of workers' self-management in Yugoslavia provides to all of the employees of each enterprise ultimate authority over basic policy, personnel, and technical issues of the firm. This study explores the "actual" and the "ideal" distribution of control in Yugoslav industrial organizations as reported by members during a five-year period, from 1969 through 1973. The data are based on questions administered at yearly intervals (excepting one year) to a probability sample of more than 3,000 persons in 100 organizations. Because important legal changes in the direction of greater participation in the governance of Yugoslav organizations were introduced immediately prior to and during this period, we expected to find some change in the distribution of control during the five years of the study. The data fit a pattern that has been found in other countries, thus illustrating principles that may transcend culture and political system. The data also differ in degree from those of other places thus also illustrating the impact of the unique legal system or organizational control in Yugoslavia. Furthermore, the data seem to be characterized more by stability than by change during the five years of the study. If change has occurred it appears to have occurred more with respect to the expectations or "ideals" of respondents than with regard to their perception of the realities of control in their organization. We none-theless assume, partly on the basis of these data and of those from studies in other countries, that substantial change in distribution of control has occurred since before the Yugoslav revolution and that a process of evolution in the distribution of control is continuing. We offer a hypothesis about this process. In addition, because we rely on the judgment of organization members for our measure of control, we present data that may shed some light on the meaning of the concept of control to these persons and therefore on the degree of correspondence between their implicit definition of control and our own.

Health care and workers' self-management in Yugoslavia.

The form of communism developed in Yugoslavia since the early 1950s--called workers' self-management--has been of interest to many westerners concerned with the ideas of participatory democracy and workers' self-management. Yugoslavia's economic growth and general openness toward the West have encouraged many people to visit and to investigate the health care system as well as other aspects of the society. It is generally said that self-management is responsible for the remarkable successes that Yugoslavia has achieved. This paper suggests, on the other hand, that many of the successes achieved in the health care system are attributable largely to the fact that self-management is not allowed to work as freely as it does in other sectors of the economy.

Urban Self-management in Yugoslavia

Simmie J.M. and Hale D.J. (1978) Urban Self-management in Yugoslavia, Reg. Studies 12, 701–712. It is argued that the main confrontations in advanced industrial societies are between bureaucracies and individuals. Allied with this is an increase in the importance of political as opposed to economic decision-making. One of the main problems for individual residents of cities is therefore to generate sufficient collective power to participate at a significant level in organisational decisions concerning urban growth, decline and production. The current constitution of Yugoslavia makes a conscious structured and operational attempt to overcome many of these problems. The main concept employed in Yugoslavia to accomplish reductions in the power of bureaucracies and real increases in participation is the idea of self-management. The application of this idea at republican, city, commune and local community levels is examined in this paper. The city of Ljubljana is used as an example of self-management at the ur...

Worker Self-Management in Yugoslavia: The Current State of Play

Yugoslavia's scheme for worker self-management is the most comprehensive one operating to date. Unlike Soviet Russia, Yugoslavia has attempted to introduce self-management based on Marxist theory before the completion of economic development. Since the 1950s, enterprise level participation has formed the basis of the entire socio-political system; it has recently been codified in the 1974 Constitution and the November 1976 Law on Associated Labour. This paper outlines the historical development of Yugoslav worker self-management and examines the significant theoretical issues as well. as the many problems of practical application, not the least of which are caused by inflation and a poor economic climate. After noting that the Yugoslav system is a unique example of social engineering which produces a web of self- management structures and procedures, this paper concludes by suggesting that discarded or superseded features of socialist Yugoslav worker self-management could be usefully considered in the West.

Self-Management in Yugoslavia

Journal Article Self-Management in Yugoslavia Get access Duncan Wilson Duncan Wilson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 1978, Pages 253–263, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615650 Published: 01 April 1978

Self-Management in Yugoslavia

Yugoslav self-management is a complicated and far-reaching system of industrial relations and social or ganization that began some 25 years ago in a society that was initially still of the Soviet-type. It endeavors to eliminate any domination of nonproducers in the economy and society (the liberation of labor) through a decision-making structure that is neither a compromise nor a mixture of Western-type and Soviet-type industrial relations. The system has been steadily extended to encompass the individual worker, who in the process has ostensibly been acquiring ever more rights. However, in reality the power position of the individual worker has not changed all that much. The political party structures were, and still are, of paramount importance. On behalf of self-management it may be said that it has cer tainly alleviated the ills usually inherent to industrializa tion, that it has facilitated the transformation of a pre dominantly agrarian to an industrial society, and that it has encouraged a certain measure of political democratization. But it has not resolved basic economic differences between the several republics of Yugoslavia, nor has it diminished large-scale unemployment. It is difficult to conclude whether the achievements and shortcomings are attributable to gen eral human failings or whether they are due to specific Yugoslav conditions.

Local Government in Yugoslavia and the Constitutional Reform of 1974 A Case Study of Ljubljana

Abstract Worker self-management in Yugoslavia has been extended from the economic sphere to the urban political economy. General directives came from the 1974 Yugoslav constitution and were detailed and implemented at the local level. In this study, the efforts of Ljubljana, Slovenia's capital city, are con sidered. A three-chambered local government was selected by a delegational system representing working organizations, neighborhood groups, and socio political bodies. In addition, planning bodies called self-managing communities of interest, that bring together both producers and users of public services, have been established. Public service companies, independent of city government, provide services to the general population. Yugoslavs have assured direct citizen participation in the urban economy and moved away from government production of public services.