Der Skandal und die Folgen

Peter Birke and Felix Bluhm

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2020, vol. 73, issue 6, 501-507

Abstract: As a result of the massive spread of Covid-19 infections in the German meatpacking industry, the abysmal working and living conditions of the almost exclusively migrant workers have been brought into the spotlight of media attention. While public discourse centres its hopes on state interventions, namely in the form of abolishing subcontracting, this article calls such perspectives into question by pointing to the complex terrain of informalisation and precarisation on which the meatpacking companies operate. In contrast to the dominant description of employees as passive victims, the text highlights different forms of labour unrest that have become visible in recent years. Based on this, it discusses which perspectives for workers and trade union politics are opened up by current disputes.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2020-6-501

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