Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/9xn31cvkzy
One of the Most Difficult Days in ‘Uljanik’: The 1967 Strike in the Uljanik Shipyard
Igor Stanić
; Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula, Croatia
Abstract
In 1965, the Federal Assembly issued a legal package, launching thereby a major economic reform aiming at enlarging market freedom, increasing business efficiency, and including Yugoslavia in the international work division. An economic system later known under the name of market socialism was introduced by this reform; the said system, along with self-management, represented a specific feature of Yugoslav selfmanagement socialism. The initial lack of adaptation of many companies to the new market conditions resulted in cutting down expenses within the companies – usually by the reduction of salaries and the dismissal of workers. The consequence thereof was the workers’ frustration, which resulted in a sequence of strikes recorded in that time. One of them occurred at the Uljanik Shipyard in 1967. Analysing the problems related to the economic reform on the level of a case study offers an interesting insight into the events, and facilitates the monitoring of the said problems on the micro-level. The analyses of the minutes of the Board of Directors, the Workers’ Council and the Factory Board of the Trade Union; as well as the paper entitled Informator, which was issued by the shipyard’s workers’ collective, show the motive, causes and effects of the strike, and the position of the workers within the system of workers’ self-management.
Keywords
economic reform; strike; work stoppage; socialism; self-management, working class; Uljanik Shipyard; Croatia; Yugoslavia
Hrčak ID:
179027
URI
Publication date:
28.2.2017.
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