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The crisis of working class sociability in Croatia : Challenges of deunionization

This article investigates how the working class in contemporary Croatia responded to challenges brought by the post-socialist transition, with special focus on the patterns of sociability. In this ethnographically and historically informed paper, I explore three topics: the shrinking of cross-class sociability which is explained by the emergence of new, non-egalitarian orders of values ; the privatization of sociability, often caused by the decline of trade union activities ; and finally, the strategies of adapting to the new conditions by persisting on union activism and self- organizing of neighbourhood communities. The paper presents results from 17 in-depth interviews conducted in five research sites: two textile factories and one electric factory, one oil company, and one research institute.

sociability ; working class ; Croatia

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