Chiara Bonfiglioli, Women and Industry in the Balkans. The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector

Soon after I began writing Chiara Bonfiglioli’s book review, I realized that the text would outgrow review format. I find Bonfiglioli’s book even more inspiring as I myself have studied the memories and experiences of women textile workers in Slovenia, one of the former Yugoslav republics, for the past twenty years. My study focused on Slovenia, but I interpreted my findings in a broader, comparative framework. As a social anthropologist, I am interested in ethnographic work. Based on grounde...