Czech to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.

Dear colleagues,

I have encountered a term in the source text, which most of us Czechs are very familiar with but for which I struggle finding a good translation. It is the so-called "národní směna" that was a form of a "voluntary" work run by the Communists during their rule in Czechoslovakia. While supposedly voluntary in nature, participation was, of course, compulsory. I believe that translation by paraphrase would be adequate here, although I would still like to include "literal" translation of the original term. I wanted to make sure that an already established translation does not exist (my research hasn´t revealed any).

I would welcome any suggestions on what you think would constitute an appropriate translation (and translation strategy) for the target culture audience (this would be an audience of mixed cultural origin, scholars speaking English but not necessarily from the UK).

Thank you very much for your help.

With best wishes,

Myska