Analyzing only subjective workplace reactions obscures the underlying management-labor conflict

Evidence

In both cases, there was a distortion of the fundamental contradiction between the interests of management and those of the employees. An analysis of the atmosphere in the workplace that restricted itself to the subjective reactions of employeesadmittedly an important indicator, but only one among severaland that was cautious about interpreting them, must willy-nilly contribute towards covering up the fundamental conflict of interest and merely concentrating on its symptoms. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2094

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s broader critique of positivist social science that brackets structures to stay on the surface of experience. — connects to: Subjectivity-only workplace studies conceal the labor-capital conflict of interest — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2094; Workplace atmosphere results from conflicts between workers’ social expectations and objective factory conditions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2093; Post-Fordism internalized class antagonism into individual worker psychology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1405 (+1 more)