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Die Geschichte klingt bekannt: Ein Rechtssystem etabliert im 19. Jahrhundert eine liberale institutionelle Ordnung. Eine Verfassung garantiert mehr oder weniger verbindlich individuelle Rechte, flankiert von einer prinzipiell nach Vertragsfreiheit und Eigentumsfreiheit gestalteten Privatrechtskodifikation. Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts gerät das liberale Gleichgewicht jedoch ins Wanken. Arbeitende Menschen artikulieren ihre Interessen schärfer als zuvor, es entsteht revolutionärer Sprengstoff, die "soziale Frage" ist allgegenwärtig und das Privatrecht der alten Ordnung scheint keine Antworten darauf zu haben. Es beginnt ein Ringen zwischen neuen, zunehmend radikalen politischen Bekenntnissen, die den Gegensatz der Klassen entweder zugunsten einer Klasse – wenn nötig gewaltsam – entscheiden oder ihn beseitigen wollen, durch Harmonisierung widerstreitender Interessen. Die neuen politischen Richtungen beeinflussen entscheidend das Privatrecht. Das Arbeitsrecht, als neu entstehende Disziplin, gerät in das Spannungsfeld der politischen Glaubenskämpfe des neuen Jahrhunderts und gewinnt gerade durch sie an Relevanz. ...
In Germany, the termination of employment contracts is a central and often intensely debated legal issue today. This is not surprising since employment termination entails substantial risks for the person affected and threatens the very foundation of his or her economic existence. This is why both politics and legal dogmatics place the individual engaged in dependent work at the centre of concern as a subject requiring protection. In Germany, labour law ("Arbeitsrecht") emerged as an independent field of law focusing on the persona of the dependent worker ("Arbeitnehmer") and its typified normative ascriptions. This process took place in the course of the 20th century, as the concept of the principal requirement that employees be protected against unforeseen or unjustified dismissal became increasingly established, giving rise to very intricate regulations. Social security is a guiding motif of this legislation which regards contract termination primarily as a risk. It is often not considered that this constellation is a very new one. Defined conceptions of the interests of the parties to labour contracts also existed before 1900, but social security was then not a central criterion. At that time, many people perceived the termination of their employment as an opportunity rather than primarily as a risk. Employers, on the other hand, aimed to keep people in their service for as long as possible. In the late 19th century, the enforcement of labour performance by legal means and normative instruments, which no longer plays any role today, was still an important issue. This provides occasion to investigate the freedom of working people from the perspective of the history of law, whereby this article focuses on the history of the German-speaking territories. ...