Corona Divides: How hygiene standards and systemic indispensability are experienced by physically exposed occupational groups

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • start year

    2020
  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung
  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr and Dr PhD Bernhard Gill, Wilhelm Viehöver
  • Research Location

    Germany
  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität München
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Social impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Unspecified

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The arrangement of hygiene standards by the German government as well as the definition of systemic indispensability ("Systemrelevanz") create disadvantages for selected occupational groups which are seldom articulated in the public debate about "Corona". How do these groups experience the crisis and the management strategies to handle it? Do corresponding issues of justice cause new social cleavages? A better understanding of these issues could help to maintain social cohesion during and after the crisis although "the virus" engenders specific social contradictions.