I'm Both a Worker and a Shareholder.' Workers' Narratives and Property Transformations in Postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia

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ID3038699
AuthorsAnna Calori (0000-0003-2038-0074, University of Exeter, corresponding author), Kathrin Jurkat (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume65
Issue4
Pages654-678
Publication date2018-01-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Southeast European Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2701-8199 • E-ISSN: 2701-8202
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/soeu-2017-0043
OpenAlexW2777129176
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited1

The authors offer an analysis of the property reforms that accompanied economic transformation in late socialist and postsocialist Yugoslavia, as experienced and narrated by industrial workers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia today. The property reforms carried out in these two countries between 1990 and the 2000s have profoundly influenced the narratives that workers form around their experience of economic transformation in the workplace. By analysing how industrial workers have developed a feeling of ownership towards their particular workplace, and how they now talk about that experience, the authors provide an explanation for workers' disillusionment and dissatisfaction towards privatisation reforms in recent years, and show how they have made sense of the seismic shifts in property relations that have accompanied economic reforms since 1989

China · Economic reform · Economic system · Economics · Feeling · Narrative · Political science · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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