Business-ideology sociology reframed the factory as collaborative convivium

Evidence

What resulted when sociologists supported business ideology was evident, for example, in the work of Otto Neuloh and his associates. … Neuloh and his associates saw the factory as a convivium' and separated life processes’ there from work processes'. They wanted those working in the factory to be seen by sociologists primarily as people engaged in collaborationmore or less in the same sense as the informal groups whose important social role had been discovered by the American sociologist Elton Mayo. Mayo had been looking for ways of increasing workers' productivity in the Western Electric Company's Hawthorne works, and his informal groups’ had been a focus of interest for factory sociologists ever since. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2095

Categorization

• DEFINE: ‘Convivium’ as a factory metaphor that dissolves the labor-capital conflict into collaboration.
• XREF: Elton Mayo’s Hawthorne informal groups and the concord-style sociology Sit-Sociology framework. — connects to: Business-ideology sociology treated the factory as a convivial community and ignored management-employee conflict — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2095; Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically; Capitalist rationalization attempts to co-opt worker militancy through co-operative management schemes (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Business-ideology sociology treated the factory as a convivial community and ignored management-employee conflict #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2095
• Capitalist rationalization attempts to co-opt worker militancy through co-operative management schemes #qualifies (0.80)
• Moral violations get theorized as production failures within a factory metaphor of society #expands (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 490
• Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically #expands (0.70)