Nathan Whittingham

Historical and Case Studies

This section includes historically grounded analyses and case studies of political movements, revolutions, and institutional transformations, with an emphasis on how structures of power and coordination emerge, stabilize, and fail.

  • Yugoslav Worker Self-Management: Power at the Firm, Absence at the Center

    Yugoslavia’s system of worker self-management stands as one of the most serious efforts to give workers real control over production at a national scale. It emerged from a political rupture rather than a theoretical exercise. When Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet Union in the late 1940s, its leaders faced a concrete problem: how to remain socialist without replicating command rule by a centralized party-state (Rusinow, 1977). The answer they pursued…