Many West German workers saw employer-employee relations as irreconcilable polarity.

Evidence

The employer is not only an opponent over the question of worker participation, but also in general an adversary to the worker. The majority of people conceive of the relationship between the employer and the employee as a polar one, not as an all-inclusive system. With an adversary like this, one may be able to reach a compromise through mutual concessions; it is more likely that one will have to wring things out of him to achieve anything at all. But a great many workers have abandoned even this hope. They take the view that the polarity between the top' and the bottom’ is irrevocable. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2101

Categorization

• SHARE: A sharp empirical nugget about post-war German working-class consciousness this study surfaced — good for someone into labor history or Frankfurt School empirical work.
• XREF: connects to: Most 1950s German workers saw employer relations as irreconcilable polarity; Workers’ antiquated capitalist stereotypes persist because employers grew more distant — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2102; The abstraction of modern employer-worker relations preserved the old capitalist image. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2105 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The abstraction of modern employer-worker relations preserved the old capitalist image. #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2105
• Workers’ antiquated capitalist stereotypes persist because employers grew more distant #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2102
• Capitalism’s socialized labor is experienced by individuals as alien market relations #corroborates (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 889