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21.7.2015
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Abstract:
Perceiving work competition as a strategic practice of a selected social system the author of the article examines the relationship between work competition and (public) holidays in the period of the fi rst fi ve-year economic plan of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1947−1952). This relationship was mutual and similarly as in other socialist countries centrally planned as well as directed: holidays helped spreading the idea of competitive way of working as well as they helped structuring (working) time. On the other hand work competition helped rooting the new system of public holidays as well as it also structured and shaped holidays. Neverthless, a competition at a work-place, a category of work competition, which is most often mentioned in the literature, was only rarely referred to in people’s recollections. Only some forms of work competition, for example postwar voluntary restoration work or youth working actions, were memorised which, as the author suggests, is also infl uenced by the symbolic acknowledgment of work and workers during socialism and with the fact that cultural politics of the time was not perceived solely as a cynical manipulation of political elites.
Keywords
Slovenia; socialism; planned economy; self-management; work competition; holidays
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