In the paper, the author tries to describe the history of the citizen of Slavonski Brod and their everyday life in the 1980s. The work has been based on a field research, local newspaper analysis and recent literature. The last decade of the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, after the death of Josip Broz Tito has been marked by numerous problems, such as the economic crisis that struck the SFRY. The focus of this paper is on socialism, a socio-economic system that marked the Yugoslavian daily life. By analyzing Socialism through social changes in the 1980s, the author tries to find out the sustainability of Socialism as a social and political system. Labor self-management was part of the state ideology promoted by the Communist party, so we observe life of citizens of Slavonski Brod through the prism of the workforce. The role of workers is very important in socialism and is an indispensable part of everyday life in the 1980s. The author has been analyzing social changes, consumer culture and leisure time of citizens of Slavonski Brod, as an indicator of social changes. Those indicators points the changes in the socialist system, i.e. and the modernization of the SFRY. Particular attention is paid to national relations which will be aggravated by the end of the 1980s as a result of all the previous problems of SFRY. Finally, such tensed political situation will result in the Homeland war which did not spare the city of Slavonski Brod and his inhabitants.