PT Journal
AU Birke, P
TI Fleischindustrie in der Coronakrise: Eine Studie zu Migration, Arbeit und multipler Prekarität
SE Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
PD 05
PY 2021
BP 41
EP 88
VL 2021
IS 29
DI 10.17185/duepublico/19418
LA de
AB In May 2020, the German government announced a new law aiming at a prohibition of the use of subcontracted, outsourced and/or temporary labour in the core parts of abattoirs and meat processing plants. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry saw repeated plant closures, as in many countries worldwide, due to both mass infections of workers, given the lack of health and safety regulations in the workplace, and dismal accommodation provided to the predominantly migrant workforce. Based on interviews conducted as part of a larger research project at the Sociological Research Institute Göttingen (SOFI), this article examines the labour disputes and social conflicts impinging on the German meat industry during the COVID-19 crisis.
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