The abstraction of modern employer-worker relations preserved the old capitalist image.

Evidence

Since immediate familiarity with workers, instead of becoming easier, had become more difficult for the employer than before, it was possible for the old doctrine to survive, and he was still being described as a capitalist'. There is a certain irony in the fact that the image of the employer, exaggerated for educational purposes and made into a warning contrast, has an intimidating effect on today’s sceptical worker.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2105

Categorization

• QUESTION: This claims the growing social distance between workers and employers perpetuated rather than dissolved the folk ‘capitalist’ imagery — a surprising counterintuitive mechanism worth chasing.
• XREF: connects to: Workers’ antiquated capitalist stereotypes persist because employers grew more distant — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2102; Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903; Capitalist exchange abstracts objects from the real labor that produced them — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 95 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist exchange abstracts objects from the real labor that produced them #corroborates (0.90) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 95
• Capitalism’s socialized labor is experienced by individuals as alien market relations #corroborates (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 889
• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903
• Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically #expands (0.80)