225 CHAPTER 13 Protesting for Production: The Dita Factory Occupation and the Struggle for Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina Damir Arsenijević, Jasmina Husanović and Vanessa Vasić-Janeković INTRODUCTION: AMNƜSTIA AS DISOBEDIENCE In October 2012, the workers of the Dita detergent factory in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, erected barricades in front of their factory to prevent the asset stripping and closure of the production plant, as demanded by the ongoing privatization of Dita. Their move was new and unprecedented: all the other factories surrounding Dita, once com- prising a huge industrial complex, had already been stripped of assets and closed down. Dita stood amidst a bare landscape of a few scattered rem- nants of factories. The Dita workers, hardened and exhausted by years of industrial action, were determined to prevent the dissolution of the factory, which they referred to as “home.” Their industrial actions con- cerned the pursuit of justice in the context of violent privatization that was leading them towards destitution: their claims had included seeking to prosecute those involved in the corrupt privatization of their factory, and pursuing their claim for 44 unpaid monthly salaries and other remu- nerations that were owed to them. Their unshakable demand insistently poses the question: to whom does the factory belong? © The Author(s) 2017 D. Jelača et al. (eds.), The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47482-3_13 arsenijevicd@gmail.com