Factory Structures and Everyday Life under Associated Labor

The internal factory developments sketched in the previous chapter show that workers’ self-management was a dynamic system with few fixed meanings. A person’s understanding of the Yugoslav road to socialism largely depended on whether one perceived either “bureaucratic centralism” or “economic particularism” as the greater danger. Those who considered the alienated state as the largest potential threat to the revolution and welcomed the idea of “market socialism” tended to see workers’ self-management primarily as the freedom of workers in a single enterprise to make their own collective business decisions and maximize incomes, regardless of the wider social implications of their