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Şerife Erol For a long time, the meat industry in Germany has been heavily criticised for wage-dumping by its European neighbours, based largely on exploitation of migrant workers from eastern Europe. Numerous outbreaks of Covid-19 in German slaughterhouses once more focused public attention on the precarious conditions of these workers. Now Germany has adopted a new legal framework, including a ban on contract and temporary agency work, creating an opportunity for a more fundamental renewal of labour relations in the sector. Thorsten Schulten As a result of a business model based on low-cost production, over the past two decades the German meat industry was highly successful in expanding its international market shares. Amid this transformation from a domestic to a largely export-oriented sector, Germany also became highly attractive as a location for slaughter and meat production. ....