Workers and Revolution in Serbia From Tito to Miloševic and Beyond

This book offers a refreshing new analysis of the role of workers both in Tito's Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against Miloševic in October 2000. The authors argue that Tito and the Communist leadership of Yugoslavia saw self-management as a modernising project to compete with the West, and as a disciplining tool for workers in the enterprise. The socialist ideals of self-management were subsequently corrupted by Yugoslavia's turn to the market.
The authors then move on to examine the central role of ordinary workers in overthrowing the nationalist regime of Miloševic and present an account which runs contrary to many descriptions of 'labour weakness' in post Communist states. Organised labour should be studied as a movement in and for itself rather than as a passive object of external forces. Two labour movement waves have emerged under post Communism, the first an expression of desire for democracy, the second as a collaboration and clientelism. A third wave, against the ravages of neoliberalism, is only just emerging.

Martin Upchurch is Professor of International Employment Relations at Middlesex University, London, UK.
 
Darko Marinkovic is Professor of Applied Economics at Megatrend University, Belgrade, Serbia.

1. Introduction
2. The Tito Years
3. Serbia in the World Economy
4. Neoliberalism Imposed
5. The Workers' Movement
6. Serbia's New Period of Crisis
Serbia Timeline
References
Index