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Hope and despair: Female workers’ professional status in Yugoslav industry

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  • Mato BoÅ¡njak

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This article explores female blue-collar workers’ professional positions and integration into workplace democracy within the self-managed industry in socialist Yugoslavia. Drawing on an extensive analysis of contemporary reports archived by Yugoslavia’s central women’s organisation, the article explores female blue-collar workers’ professional qualifications and participation in worker education programmes and worker councils – Yugoslavia’s self-managed industry’s core democratic body. The article aims to shows that the prevailing gender and class-based social order within Yugoslav industry hindered female workers’ professional advancement and representation in workplace democracy, perpetuating their secondary status, which was manifested through poor representation in workplace democracy and predominantly low professional qualifications.

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  • Mato BoÅ¡njak, 2026. "Hope and despair: Female workers’ professional status in Yugoslav industry," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 47(3), pages 775-798, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:47:y:2026:i:3:p:775-798
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X251342032
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