LEAD: Yugoslavia raised energy and food prices today despite the prospect of further worker unrest.

Economic liberalization has been accompanied by soaring inflation, bank runs, corruption and worker unrest.

While they decried the deteriorating factory conditions, worker unrest in the 1840s was directed mainly against the loss of control over economic life.

Some factories had applied to send delegations, but were turned down, probably reflecting the Government's growing unease over worker unrest.

A main reason for worker unrest has been the fear of large-scale layoffs.

In April 1920, widespread worker unrest and a railway strike broke out.

The other is that worker unrest will lead on to a political explosion.

The gathering, a rare public acknowledgment of the depth of the worker unrest, was part of an industry conference this week for game developers.

But if the old policies yielded little more than high inflation and worker unrest, the new direction is also fraught with risk.

Until recently, the state normally bailed out such money-losing factories indefinitely, because of the fear of worker unrest.