Sociology and Space, No. 65-66, 1979.
Original scientific paper
Part-time Workers on Functions and Tasks in Self-managed Institutions
Milan Benc
Abstract
In his discussion Pravci razvoja
političkog sistema socijalističkog
samoupravljanja (Lines of
Development of the Political
System of Socialist
Self-management) Edvard Kardelj
says that the working people and
citizens take part in
self-management not as abstract
political citizens, but as concrete
persons on the basis of their
special (partial) and general
(social) needs and the interest of
the working class.
This is the basis of the supposition
that the working people-citizens,
as members of different social
groups, take part in
self-management with differing
intensities.
On the basis of a comparison
between part-time and full-time
workers from work organizations
in Yugoslavia, this article presents
a study of the degree to which
these two populations take part
in functions and tasks in
self-management: in the work
organization, in the local
community, and in socio-political
organizations.
Research results show that there
are differences between the relative
number of part-time and full-time
workers on functions and tasks
in self-management institutions,
although those differences are not
great. The differences between the
two groups can be seen most
clearly in the index of participation
(a maximum of 6% in favour of
the full-time workers). They
appear in a range of 2—4% in
all the analyzed forms of
self-management in work
organizations, and are minimum in the case of the local community
(about 1%). In the case of
socio-political organizations data
show great differences with regard
to membership in the League of
Communists (about 7% in favour
of full-time workers), but the
difference is smaller (about 2.5%)
in the case of functions and tasks
in the executive bodies of political
organizations. It can be shown that
there are even relatively more
part-time workers on functions and
tasks in some organizations (The
Socialist Alliance of the Working
People, the Federation of
Associations of National Liberation
War Veterans).
These differences are explained by
the close links between the
part-time workers and their
environment — the village, the
fact that they do not have much
time at their disposal because they
spend much time coming and going
to work, and also working in
agriculture, and the fact that they
are less respected in their work
environment, although they do not
differ from full-time workers in
work characteristics.
It can be concluded that the
differences noticed in engagement
in self-management between
part-time and full-time workers
are more in the realm of subjective
possibilities, needs and interests,
than in the realm of a general
orientation.
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Hrčak ID:
119377
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Publication date:
12.12.1979.
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