Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990

by Susan L. Woodward

Book Overview

In the first political analysis of unemployment in a socialist country, Susan Woodward argues that the bloody conflicts that are destroying Yugoslavia stem not so much from ancient ethnic hatreds as from the political and social divisions created by a failed socialist program to prevent capitalist joblessness. Under Communism the concept of socialist unemployment was considered an oxymoron; when it appeared in postwar Yugoslavia, it was dismissed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691025517
• ISBN13: 9780691025513
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"