Scattered workplace complaints condense into a demand to be treated as human.

Evidence

Complaints repeatedly expressed during the group discussions about being rushed, about overtime and Sunday working, about the supremacy of production requirements, of targets, of machinery, cumulated together into the expression of a desire to be treated as a human being and not just as a worker. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 509

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: how diffuse worker grievances aggregate into a single moral demand — the alchemy by which complaints become a claim to dignity.
• XREF: connects to: Workers reject bad bosses while desiring to be treated as human beings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2071; People are reduced to objects whether addressed as employees or consumers — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 113; Everyday workplace grievances express class conflict while disguising it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 514
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Workers reject bad bosses while desiring to be treated as human beings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2071; People are reduced to objects whether addressed as employees or consumers — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 113; Everyday workplace grievances express class conflict while disguising it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 514