Psychic Landscapes, Worker Organizing and Blame. Uljanik and the 2018 Croatian Shipbuilding Crisis

Hodges Andrew ()
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Hodges Andrew: Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Landshuter Str. 4, 93047Regensburg, Germany

Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2019, vol. 67, issue 1, 50-74

Abstract: This article analyses worker narratives of discontent in relation to a series of crises at the Uljanik Shipyard in Pula, Croatia, over the course of 2018. It draws on five months of fieldwork conducted in the period between two worker protests at the shipyard surrounding the late payment of wages, the second of which developed into a large-scale strike. The author describes the crises, provides historical details about the shipyard and about trade unions and other forms of worker organizing, and offers notes on the political context. He analyses the psychic landscape of the most recent crisis period, with a focus on how anxiety, fear and suspicion were manifest. Finally, he discusses rumours and the blaming strategies adopted by workers, relating them to the importance of personalized relations in the regional political economy.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2019-0003

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