Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Unfulfilled Expectations
Mighty Elites and Subservient Workers
(Re)Discovering Labor
Approaching Class and Nation in a Yugoslav Factory
Sources and Chapter Overview

Chapter 1. Two Roads to Self-managing Socialism
Two Blue-Collar Communities
Differing Origins
“Factories to the Workers”
Market Socialism
Losing Factory Unity

Chapter 2. Factory Structures and Everyday Life under Associated Labor
Reviving Revolution through Normative Acts
The More Things Change
Claiming Tito
The Factory as a Collective

Chapter 3. Shades of Blue-collar Workers
Proletariat in the Making
Who Creates Value?
Skill, Gender, and Place of Origin
Veterans and the Youth
Appendix 1

Chapter 4. The Dragging Crisis, 1979–1986
The Sudden Breakdown
The Party at an Impasse
TAM’s Pushback of Associated Labor
IMR Tries to Catch Up

Chapter 5. Breaking the Pact: Workers, Liberals, and Nationalists against the Status Quo
Cutting out the Middlemen
The Stolen Golden Apples
The Diligent Ones
Appendix 2

Chapter 6. Mobilizations at the Bottom—Realignments at the Top, 1986–1988
Reaching Beyond the Factory Gates
A “Firm Hand” Inside Serbia
Bypassing the Working Class in Slovenia
Beggar Thy Neighbor

Chapter 7. Workers in the Streets
Two Outlets in Rakovica
Deus Ex Machina
Maribor’s Blue-Collar Wrath
Post Festum

Conclusion
The Unsettled Working Class
Liberal and Collectivist Self-Management
In Search of Allies and Enemies
Unanticipated Changes

Bibliography
Index