„Working at the Margins in Interwar Yugoslavia“ – Stefano Petrungaro
Autor Stefano Petrungaro u knjizi Working at the Margins in Interwar Yugoslavia analizira društveni položaj marginaliziranih skupina u međuratnoj Jugoslaviji, istražujući kako su njihov rad, svakodnevica i odnos s državom oblikovali procese društvene kontrole, otpora i društvenih promjena.
O knjizi
Prostitutes, beggars, folk healers, peddlers, wandering artists, and bear-leaders: Working at the Margins in Interwar Yugoslavia shows how work shaped their relations with the state and the rest of their world. The protagonists of the book’s story lived on the fringes of society and engaged in activities that were only partially recognized, from a legal and social point of view, as proper jobs, while some of them had no job at all. This book looks at Yugoslavia’s disciplining and social engineering practices through the lens of socially marginal workers. The analysis shows that in this period the South Slav regions entered a new, more radical phase of social disciplining. Yet, it is not simply a history of social marginalization and repression; this book also tells a story of active protests, unexpected compromises, and resistance. Too often overlooked, the socially marginalized deserve study. What emerges is a fascinating world, a space of values, ideas, and practices that played an important role in shaping interwar Yugoslav history.
Sadržaj
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Challenges of the First Yugoslavia
2 Criminalizing Prostitution
3 Taming Itinerant Workers: Peddlers and Wandering Artists
4 Fighting against Deviant Midwives and Folk Healers
5 Disciplining Beggars and Other Poor People
6 Managing Jobless People
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
O autoru
Stefano Petrungaro is an associate professor of history of Eastern Europe at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. His research interests include the cultural and social history of the late Habsburg Empire, the history of violence in the modern Balkans, and the collective memories in Southeastern Europe. He is the coeditor of Caring for the Socially Marginalised in Interwar Europe, 1919–1939: The Mixed Economy of Welfare, and coauthor of In the Storms of Transformation: Two Shipyards between Socialism and the EU.
Drugi o knjizi:
“There was a tremendous methodological advancement in historical research when the shift occurred from ‘history from above’ to ‘history from below’ to the history of society, of specific social groups, and individuals. But what does ‘history from the side’ look like—history viewed from the social margins, seen through the eyes of those protagonists who are not only invisible to historians, but were also unseen by their contemporaries?
“These invisible participants in history are the subject of Stefano Petrungaro’s research. His captivatingly written study opens up to the reader entirely unknown and fascinating worlds of prostitutes, beggars, folk healers, peddlers, wandering artists, and bear-leaders. At the same time, the book offers a completely new history of Yugoslavia—far more complex, deeper, and more dynamic than the ones we have known so far.” —Dubravka Stojanović, professor in the Department of History, University of Belgrade
Published in May 2026
ISBN 9781626711679
304p
Opširnije: https://www.press.purdue.edu/9781626711709/