Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Key contributions
Chapter 1: Industrializing Yugoslavia: Market socialism and textile workers’ structure of feeling
	Textile factories in the interwar era
	‘Factories to the workers’: From shock-work to self-management
	Biking to the night shift: Women’s emancipation through labour
	The factory as a socialist microcosm: Work, welfare and leisure
	Balancing welfare and productivity: Paternalist management in socialism
Chapter 2: Being a seamstress in Yugoslav times: The ‘working mother’ gender contract
	Re-conceptualizing the double burden in the Yugoslav context
	From 3.00 am to 10.00 pm: The seamstresses’ endless working day
	‘What do you get from being a party member?’: On the ‘triple burden’
	Women ‘made of granite’: Workers’ portraits in the factory press
	Seamstresses on screen: Workers’ representations in popular culture
Chapter 3: Labour after Yugoslavia: Post-socialism and deindustrialization in the textile sector
	Post-socialist transformations in the textile sector
	‘Before it was different, it was easier’: Work across generations
	‘Only duties and no rights’: The subcontracting limbo
	Trade unions in post-Yugoslav states
Chapter 4: Workers’ structure of feeling after deindustrialization: Loss, nostalgia and belonging
	Deindustrialized landscapes across the post-Yugoslav space
	Threads of belonging: Remembering the factory as a second home
	Missing the future: The end of intergenerational solidarity
	Feeling Yugoslav: Nostalgia for brotherhood and unity
	Matters of gender and class: Critical Yugo-nostalgia
Chapter 5: Beyond nostalgia: Workers’ struggles for social justice and everyday resilience
	Industrial workers’ struggles in the cultural, artistic and academic realm
	Heads up: Textile workers’ strikes and collective organizing
	Do it yourself: Everyday survival strategies
Conclusion
	Working-class women and their structure of feeling
	Post-Yugoslav textile production between the local and the global
Bibliography
	Primary sources
	Secondary sources
	Online sources and press
Index