Youth work actions

Youth work actions (Serbo-Croatian: Omladinske radne akcije, often abbreviated to ORA, Slovene: Mladinske delovne akcije) were organized voluntary[citation needed] labor activities of young people in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Important projects built by youth work brigades include the Brčko-Banovići railway, the Šamac-Sarajevo railway, parts of New Belgrade, and parts of the Brotherhood and Unity Highway, which stretches from northern Slovenia to southern Macedonia.

The partisans organized initial actions during World War II in territories liberated by them.

In addition to cheap labor for the state, youth work actions provided a form of free holiday for teenagers.

However, they were revived in the late 1970s, in an effort to voluntary organize youth in political and cultural activities, as the work actions proved to play a large role in the socialization of those involved.