Appeals to scientific neutrality dissolved class conflict into universal shared interest.

Evidence

It was a matter of science and truth; research results based on scientific quality and accuracy were in the interest of everyone equally; the fact that workers showed greater interest in participation in their immediate vicinity than in participation at the highest levels of a company only showed that, for most people, charity begins at home; humanizing factory conditions would be good for everyone involved. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 512

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretely illustrates the Frankfurt School’s critique of the value-free-neutrality claim, here weaponized as publicity rhetoric.
• XREF: connects to: Neutral scholarship rhetoric often conceals worldly power connections — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 309; Shared values let diverse thinkers cooperate across disciplines for hegemonic ends — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 170; Hegemonic rule universalizes one class’s interests as society-wide goals — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Neutral scholarship rhetoric often conceals worldly power connections — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 309; Shared values let diverse thinkers cooperate across disciplines for hegemonic ends — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 170; Hegemonic rule universalizes one class’s interests as society-wide goals — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626 (+1 more)