Occupational health in slaughterhouses in Germany: translating political claims into Legal Language during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zeitschrift für Sozialreform Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI:10.1515/zsr-2023-0005

Alejandro Valdivia, Johannes Gallon, Anna Katharina Mangold

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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic provided political momentum for social and legal change in occupational health in slaughterhouses in Germany. After years of unsuccessful scandalisation over the precarious working conditions in slaughterhouses, a comprehensive legislative framework was introduced in 2020: the Federal Occupational Health and Safety Control Act (Arbeitsschutzkontrollgesetz). This article traces the political and legal events leading to the enactment of this legislation, contributing to a wider empirical debate about the interaction of civil society and democratic institutions. Methodologically, we combine a legal analysis of the legislative process with a political science analysis of the participation of civil society actors, mainly labour unions. Theoretically, we explore how civil society actors translated the content of political claims into legal arguments through the lens of disciplinary translations and knowledge translation. The results of our study highlight the importance of translations as a hermeneutic concept for bringing about legal changes.

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德国屠宰场的职业健康：在 COVID-19 大流行期间将政治诉求转化为法律语言

摘要 COVID-19 大流行为德国屠宰场职业健康方面的社会和法律变革提供了政治动力。在对屠宰场不稳定的工作条件进行多年的丑化未果后，德国于 2020 年出台了一项全面的法律框架：《联邦职业健康与安全控制法案》（Arbeitsschutzkontrollgesetz）。本文追溯了导致该法颁布的政治和法律事件，为有关公民社会与民主制度互动的更广泛的实证辩论做出了贡献。在方法论上，我们将对立法过程的法律分析与对公民社会行动者（主要是工会）参与的政治学分析相结合。在理论上，我们通过学科翻译和知识翻译的视角，探讨了公民社会行动者如何将政治主张的内容转化为法律论据。我们的研究结果强调了翻译作为一种诠释学概念对于实现法律变革的重要性。

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