{"id":15298,"date":"2019-06-13T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=15298"},"modified":"2019-06-13T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:25:18","slug":"chiara-bonfiglioli-women-and-industry-in-the-balkans-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-yugoslav-textile-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=15298","title":{"rendered":"Chiara Bonfiglioli, \u201eWomen and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osim o knjizi Zs\u00f3fie L\u00f3r\u00e1nd &#8220;The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia&#8221; o kojoj smo ve\u0107 obavijestili na portalu, na predstoje\u0107em ASEEES kongresu bit \u0107e diskusija i o knjizi Chiare Bonfiglioli \u201eWomen and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector\u201c (I.B. Tauris, 2019, 224 str.).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2019 <strong>ASEEES<\/strong> Summer Convention (Zagreb, 14-16 June 2019)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseees.org\/summer-convention\/program\">https:\/\/www.aseees.org\/summer-convention\/program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women and Industry in the Balkans <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By: Chiara Bonfiglioli<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Women and Industry in the Balkans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s emancipation through productive labour was a key tenet of socialist politics in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Mass industrialisation under Tito led many young women to join traditionally &#8216;feminised&#8217; sectors, and as a consequence the textile sector grew rapidly, fast becoming a gendered symbol of industrialisation, consumption and socialist modernity. By the 1980s Yugoslavia was one of the world&#8217;s leading producers of textiles and garments. The break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991, however, resulted in factory closures, bankruptcy and layoffs, forcing thousands of garment industry workers into precarious and often exploitative private-sector jobs. Drawing on more than 60 oral history interviews with former and current garment workers, as well as workplace periodicals and contemporary press material collected across Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia, Women and Industry in the Balkans charts the rise and fall of the Yugoslav textile sector, as well as the implications of this post-socialist transition, for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, the book explores broader questions about memories of socialism, lingering feelings of attachment to the socialist welfare system and the complexity of the post-socialist era. This is important reading for all scholars working on the history and politics of Yugoslavia and the Balkans, oral history, memory studies and gender studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/p>\n<p>1.Industrializing Yugoslavia: Market Socialism and Textile Workers&#8217; Structure of Feeling<\/p>\n<p>2.Being a Seamstress in Yugoslav Times: The &#8216;Working Mother&#8217; Gender Contract<\/p>\n<p>3.Labour After Yugoslavia: Post-socialism and Deindustrialization in the Textile Sector<\/p>\n<p>4.Workers&#8217; Structure of Feeling After Deindustrialisation: Loss, Nostalgia and Belonging<\/p>\n<p>5.Beyond Nostalgia: Workers&#8217; Struggles for Social Justice and Everyday Resilience<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>Index<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/women-and-industry-in-the-balkans-9781784539603\/\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/women-and-industry-in-the-balkans-9781784539603\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chiara.jpg?fit=420%2C647&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52516,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52516","url_meta":{"origin":15298,"position":0},"title":"Marko Grde\u0161i\u0107, Mislav \u017ditko, \u201eSocialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"17. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s. 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