Blue-collar workers were already under half the workforce by 1925 and shrinking further

Evidence

The original goal of the research on the working class was to find out what manual and non-manual workers’ psychic structure was actually like. Interest in this topic had been further encouraged by previous research on the working class. The facts behind research in this area were that the number of white-collar workers had increased rapidly as a proportion of those in employment, and that the proportion of blue-collar workers, which in 1925 was already less than 50 per cent, was decreasing, even in areas such as heavy industry and mining, where manual workers were still the great majority. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 465

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Kracauer’s white-collar analysis and the general 1920s debate on the ‘new middle class’ that also runs through her labor-history reading. — connects to: White-collar workers grew rapidly as blue-collar share fell below half by 1925. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 465; The early industrial working class was a minority of laborers

Broader Connections

• White-collar workers grew rapidly as blue-collar share fell below half by 1925. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 465
• The early industrial working class was a minority of laborers #complicates (0.75)