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2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

SOCIAL CHANGE AND NATIONAL QUESTION IN EASTERN EUROPE

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11610182
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionHiroshima University

Principal Investigator

ZAIKI Kazuo  HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF INTEGRATED ARTS AND SCIENCE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 総合科学部, 助教授 (70215929)

Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2001
KeywordsYugoslav Socialism / Titoism / National Question
Research Abstract

After a clash with Stalin, Yugoslav Communist broke with Soviet model of Socialism and adopted a new type of socialist system. One of the basic institutions was workers' self-management system of the enterprise. In this system, workers council, elected by all employees, appointed the director of the enterprise and supervised management board.
The significance of this system was that it facilitated employees to identify themselves strongly with the enterprise and thus enhanced their work morale. Moreover workers had a good opportunity to learn the operation of the firm through the participation in management. This was particularly important, because it transformed the employees of peasant origin into the real industrial workers.
However, workers' self-management revealed its drawback in 1980s. The biggest problem was that workers wanted too much wage when they distributed the corporate income. The enterprise extended its business depending on a bank loan. Its source was foreign debt. Yugoslav economy fell into a crisis when they could not afford to reply a loan. The government printed money to make up for financial deficit and raised an enormous inflation.
In the beginning of 1990s Yugoslav communist regime collapsed and ethnic conflicts followed all over the country. Workers self-management system disappeared. Nevertheless we must admit that it was a historical experiment of employees' participation in management.

  • Research Products

    (4 results)

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All Publications (4 results)

  • [Publications] 村木 和雄: "『異文化/I・BUNKA(21世紀の教養2)』第3部第9章「クロアチア人・セルビア人・ムスリム人の形成」"培風館. 296 (2000)

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  • [Publications] 材木 和雄: "広島県労働大学専門講座(第4章海外労働事情-世界の労働者意識・ユーゴスラヴィアの事例-)"広島県福山商工労政事務所. 78 (2000)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Zaiki, Kazuo: "Yugoslav Workers and Participation Management"Hiroshima Workers' University Review. 59-79 (2000)

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  • [Publications] Zaiki, Kazuo: "Yugoslav Three Nations : Serb, Croat and Moslem"In Asano and others (ed.), IBUNKA 199-209, Baifukan. (2000)

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Published: 2003-09-17  

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