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

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  • Calori Anna

    (University of Exeter, Department of History, College of Humanities, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom)

  • Jurkat Kathrin

    (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Abt. Südosteuropäische Geschichte, Unter den Linden 6, 10099Berlin, Germany)

Abstract

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.

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  • Calori Anna & Jurkat Kathrin, 2017. "‘I’m Both a Worker and a Shareholder.’ Workers’ Narratives and Property Transformations in Postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 65(4), pages 654-678, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:65:y:2017:i:4:p:654-678:n:3
    DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2017-0043
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