ABSTRACT
Enterprises in Yugoslavia are characterised by ‘self-management’. They are a class by themselves. They differ from public enterprises elsewhere in the world. The ‘self-management’ transcends all forms of joint consultation, workers’ participation, and worker directors on the board, with which we are familiar in other countries. The crucial element in the Yugoslav enterprise is the Basic Organisation of Associated Labour (BOAL). This is composed of workers who are mutually inter-dependent in their work and give rise to joint results of labour. The emphasis of the Associated Labour Act of 1976 is on the formation of the smallest BOAL possible. The agency that law designates as responsible for managing the work of a BOAL is the Workers’ Council. Every BOAL with 30 workers or more has to form it in such a way that all processes and categories of workers in the BOAL are represented on it.
