Anna Calori is Lecturer in Contemporary Economic History at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

"Engineering Global Socialism challenges readers to perceive continuities between the years of late socialist Yugoslavia, the years of immediate postwar reconstruction, and the ostensibly more forward-looking reforms of the early twenty-first century by incorporating reforms associated with all these periods into its framework and by encouraging readers to thus challenge the 'narratives of transition as (neo)liberal convergence' towards a social-financial 'end of history.' The nonlinearity of Calori's theory of transition is sophisticated and brings a state-of-the-art understanding of how 'transition' is now being understood by critical specialists on to its empirical material."—Catherine Baker, author of Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial?"The story of Energoinvest is the story of Bosnia and Yugoslavia in miniature. The text evokes so much productive thinking for myself as well. I really enjoyed the discussion of socialist corporate culture, ethno-nationalistic privatization and neoliberalism (brilliant!), the deindustrialization literature, the socialist good life, the 'portal to their imagined futures' and the resilience of the 'global socialist ecumene,' and concretely showing us the changes and continuities across 1989. The beginnings of each chapter and the transitions are so fascinating to read and wonderfully tied to the current concerns. I am so excited about this book."—Johanna Bockman, author of Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism"Anna Calori's compelling analysis traces the fall of socialist Yugoslavia and its multiethnic core, Bosnia-Herzegovina, through the lens of one of its economic giants: Energoinvest. The firm's collapse is masterfully retold through the voices of blue-collar workers and managers who once believed in the promise of a global socialist state embedded in the market economy."—Chiara Bonfiglioli, author of Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Shaping the Global Promise: Entangled Globalizations, Non-Alignment, and Socialist Corporate Culture2. The Cracks in the Promise of Global Socialism: Debt and Restructuring in the Time of Reform3. Delivering Change? Remaking the World of Work in the Early Privatization Reforms (1988-1990)4. Our World Came Tumbling Down: The Workplace at War5. Layers of Deservingness: Ownership and Employment after the War6. Expecting the Global: New Horizons of Development and the Fate of (Post)Socialist Corporations7. Bound by Promises: Narratives and Experiences of the Workplace across ReformsConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

Anna Calori is Lecturer in Contemporary Economic History at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

"Engineering Global Socialism challenges readers to perceive continuities between the years of late socialist Yugoslavia, the years of immediate postwar reconstruction, and the ostensibly more forward-looking reforms of the early twenty-first century by incorporating reforms associated with all these periods into its framework and by encouraging readers to thus challenge the 'narratives of transition as (neo)liberal convergence' towards a social-financial 'end of history.' The nonlinearity of Calori's theory of transition is sophisticated and brings a state-of-the-art understanding of how 'transition' is now being understood by critical specialists on to its empirical material."—Catherine Baker, author of Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial?"The story of Energoinvest is the story of Bosnia and Yugoslavia in miniature. The text evokes so much productive thinking for myself as well. I really enjoyed the discussion of socialist corporate culture, ethno-nationalistic privatization and neoliberalism (brilliant!), the deindustrialization literature, the socialist good life, the 'portal to their imagined futures' and the resilience of the 'global socialist ecumene,' and concretely showing us the changes and continuities across 1989. The beginnings of each chapter and the transitions are so fascinating to read and wonderfully tied to the current concerns. I am so excited about this book."—Johanna Bockman, author of Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism"Anna Calori's compelling analysis traces the fall of socialist Yugoslavia and its multiethnic core, Bosnia-Herzegovina, through the lens of one of its economic giants: Energoinvest. The firm's collapse is masterfully retold through the voices of blue-collar workers and managers who once believed in the promise of a global socialist state embedded in the market economy."—Chiara Bonfiglioli, author of Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Shaping the Global Promise: Entangled Globalizations, Non-Alignment, and Socialist Corporate Culture2. The Cracks in the Promise of Global Socialism: Debt and Restructuring in the Time of Reform3. Delivering Change? Remaking the World of Work in the Early Privatization Reforms (1988-1990)4. Our World Came Tumbling Down: The Workplace at War5. Layers of Deservingness: Ownership and Employment after the War6. Expecting the Global: New Horizons of Development and the Fate of (Post)Socialist Corporations7. Bound by Promises: Narratives and Experiences of the Workplace across ReformsConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex