ABSTRACT
The system of workers' management of social production has been applied and expanded in Yugoslavia for more than a decade and has brought about the development of specific forms of direct social management in all other walks of life. In Yugoslavia the system of workers' and direct social management is most closely associated with the social and political revolution carried out during the People's Liberation War between 1941 and 1945 and immediately after it, which gave the social system and development a socialist character. The system of workers' management necessarily brought about corresponding changes in the system of management in non-economic activities and in the function and character of state agencies. Public services in education, culture and health, became autonomous institutions managed by the working people employed in them, except in questions of general importance which they decided together with representatives of competent territorial communities, citizens, institutions and organizations concerned.
