Horkheimer argued workers needed management’s research to understand their own jobs.

Evidence

In spite of their understandable mistrust, they need to have clear information about their own working life and how to improve the factors affecting it. The factory matters to them. Where things are more or less right, a bond with the company forms. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 512

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the earlier Mannesmann works-council co-determination dispute; the same ‘information serves workers’ argument appears here in Horkheimer’s own voice. — connects to: Horkheimer argued factory research serves workers regardless of employer motives; Horkheimer argued workplace opinion research benefits workers regardless of management’s motives. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2087; Horkheimer publicly advertised social research as a tool for industrial productivity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1855 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer argued factory research serves workers regardless of employer motives; Horkheimer argued workplace opinion research benefits workers regardless of management’s motives. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2087; Horkheimer publicly advertised social research as a tool for industrial productivity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1855 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Findings attributed to workers became evidence used against worker-participation demands. #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 512
• Horkheimer favored dialectical insight over empirical research into the facts. #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 745
• Horkheimer suppressed Fromm’s worker study as both too Marxist and not Marxist enough #complicates (0.74) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 195