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Book SynopsisChiara Bonfiglioli is Lecturer in Gender & Women's Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. She has published and researched on gender history in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states, as well as on transnational women's and feminist movements during the Cold War
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www.chiarabonfiglioli.net Trade ReviewIt is thanks to books like this that such examples of resistance and resilience are kept alive ... socially engaged and empathic, yet critical and academically sound, works of this kind are sorely needed. * European Journal of Women’s Studies *
An engaging and complex read that allows us to enter the world of individual experiences entangled in political, economic and social processes. * Wagadu *
[A]n engaging text ... Bonfiglioli’s book will be a mandatory reference for those interested not only in intersections of industrial labour, gender and class in socialism and post-socialism, but also in questions that shape current debates in the field of global labour history. * Social History *
From here, exciting scholarly debate can proceed. ... Chiara Bonfiglioli’s book provides a valuable discussion of gendered work during socialist and especially, postsocialist deindustrialization and exploitative reindustrialization in Yugoslavia and its successor states. * Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1.Industrializing Yugoslavia: Market Socialism and Textile Workers’ Structure of Feeling 2.Being a Seamstress in Yugoslav Times: The ‘Working Mother’ Gender Contract 3.Labour After Yugoslavia: Post-socialism and Deindustrialization in the Textile Sector 4. Workers’ Structure of Feeling After Deindustrialisation: Loss, Nostalgia and Belonging 5. Beyond Nostalgia: Workers’ Struggles for Social Justice and Everyday Resilience Conclusion Index
