Excluding class conflict from workplace research distorts what the research measures

Evidence

In its contents, too, The Worker’s Image of Society was far more natural than the Mannesmann study in its use of language, in its reporting of quotations, and in the way in which it went into detail on contentious topics. The Popitz study gave extensive attention to the topic of the struggle between capital and labour, which had been explicitly excluded from the Institute of Social Research study for no convincing reason. No matter how much one wanted to concentrate on the atmosphere in each specific workplace, that atmosphere always at the same time represented a particular form of the clash of interests between labour and capital which was produced by the special situation in each factory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 517

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School material on the Mannesmann study and Horkheimer’s willingness to trim Marxist vocabulary for industrial sponsors. — connects to: A conflict over quantitative versus qualitative scientific priorities can kill research publication. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 393; The research design bounded inquiry to worker subjectivity and excluded management entirely — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 507; Everyday workplace grievances express class conflict while disguising it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 514 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A conflict over quantitative versus qualitative scientific priorities can kill research publication. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 393; The research design bounded inquiry to worker subjectivity and excluded management entirely — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 507; Everyday workplace grievances express class conflict while disguising it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 514 (+4 more)