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Containing Conflict and Enforcing Consent in Titoist Yugoslavia: The 1970 Dockworkers' Strike in Koper (Slovenia)
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Abstract The port of Koper (It. Capodistria) in the Slovenian part of the Istrian peninsula was built in the second half of the 1950s as a socialist modernization project. In 1970, it witnessed the only violently escalating dockers’ unrest in its socialist history. Using the personal archive of Danilo Petrin... view more
The port of Koper (It. Capodistria) in the Slovenian part of the Istrian peninsula was built in the second half of the 1950s as a socialist modernization project. In 1970, it witnessed the only violently escalating dockers’ unrest in its socialist history. Using the personal archive of Danilo Petrinja, the port’s second director, which has been pre-served in the Regional Archive of Koper, the author takes a micro-historical approach to this incident, and views it at the historical moment in Yugoslavia between the student protests of 1968 and the ‘Croatian spring’ of 1971. She adds a perspective on the interconnectedness of the early 1970s and the late 1980s, when social unrest was an integral part of Yugoslavia’s demise. The episode of public violence in the Yugoslav border city of Koper offers proof of the multi-layered nature of explanatory tropes: the border perspective from Koper is interwoven with the perspective of Yugoslavia as a whole, and a comparison with workers’ violence in neighbouring Trieste during the same years adds yet another twist to a reassessment of the applicability of the Cold War framework to an examination of labour relations and violence.... view less
Keywords
Yugoslavia; post-socialist country; general strike; longshoreman
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Free Keywords
dockyard workers; Koper; Italo-Yugoslav border region; public violence; self-management; Trieste
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 275-294
Journal
European History Quarterly, 45 (2015) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0265691415571530
ISSN
1461-7110
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications