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Rad, klasa, nacija: radnički štrajkovi u Hrvatskoj 1990. godine

This text is the result of the research project Kontinuitet društvenih sukoba 1988.−1991.: Kombinat Borovo [The Continuity of Social Conflicts in the 1988-1991 period: the Borovo Combine], carried out since 2014 under the auspices of the Centar za mirovne studije [Centre for Peace Studies] and the Baza za radničku inicijativu i demokratizaciju [Organization for Workers’ Initiative and Democratization] from Zagreb. The aim of the research was to describe the (dis)continuities between the workers’ strikes dating from the end of the 1980’s and the violent conflicts of the 1990’s, which unfolded and are interpreted primarily in the ethno-national key. The once great Vukovar combine Borovo, often referred to as “Little Yugoslavia”, provides an opportunity for gaining insight, through a case study, at the micro-level of social-historical analysis, relevant to the broader issue of the continuity of conflicts in the post-Yugoslav space, and also into the mechanisms and dynamics of their transformation. Our approach to this issue is determined by the thesis that the Yugoslav conflicts occurred at the time of the establishment of the capitalist social relations, so that this simultaneity was not accidental but constituted a case of interlinked processes. In our research, we proceed from the position of workers and the experience of labour. That means that in our analysis of this period, marked by social insecurity, bankruptcies and dismissals from work, we take into consideration the tools that workers had at their disposal when it came to understanding their position and articulating their interest, as well as the available strategies for resisting the general decrease on the living standard, impoverishment and the precarisation of labour.

Štrajk, rad, klasa, nacija, Hrvatska

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