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In socialist Yugoslavia, work and labor were central to the legitimacy of the state and government, and represented the basis of social and political rights. Such position of labor was underpinned by social and cultural institutions that either disappeared or underwent dramatic transformation with the restoration of capitalism. This chapter traces the emergence of regional class cultures in relation to print and literacy in the 19th century, and offers a look at one subsequent institutional development under socialism—factory newspapers. The chapter revolves around the weekly paper of one of the biggest industrial systems in Yugoslavia, Borovo, which was the oldest factory newspaper in the country. The aim of the essay is twofold: to show how the social transformation of the time was registered in the newspaper, and to reflect on the ways in which this cultural form participated in the broader processes of class formation.
This research is part of the project “A Cultural History of Capitalism: Britain, America, Croatia,” funded by the Croatian Science Foundation.
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Cvek, S. (2017). Class and Culture in Yugoslav Factory Newspapers. In: Jelača, D., Kolanović, M., Lugarić, D. (eds) The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47482-3_6
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