Findings attributed to workers became evidence used against worker-participation demands.

Evidence

This way of appropriating the research was just as much to be expected as were protests from the trade unions against a study which provided evidence that there was no great interest among workers for worker participation. The Institute’s directors tried to take the sting out of reactions of this sort through a small press campaign. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 512

Categorization

• SHARE: A razor-sharp case of ‘the data says workers don’t want it’ being weaponized by management against unions.
• XREF: connects to: Industry shifted the burden from structural safeguards onto individual worker behaviors — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1805; Industry funded research explicitly designed to confine harm claims to workers only — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1784; The administrative cribbing of reports determined which event readings became evidence (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Industry shifted the burden from structural safeguards onto individual worker behaviors — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1805; Industry funded research explicitly designed to confine harm claims to workers only — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1784; The administrative cribbing of reports determined which event readings became evidence (+3 more)