The research design bounded inquiry to worker subjectivity and excluded management entirely

Evidence

The Institute drafted a research plan involving employees but not management; dealing with employees’ subjective opinions and behaviour but not with objective conditions; and examining specific conditions in the factories themselves but not relationships extending beyond the factory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 507

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies exactly what the Institute’s industrial research method did and did not cover — a scope definition useful at reference depth.
• XREF: connects to: Subjectivity-only workplace studies conceal the labor-capital conflict of interest — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2094; Analyzing only subjective workplace reactions obscures the underlying management-labor conflict — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2094; Excluding class conflict from workplace research distorts what the research measures — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 517 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Subjectivity-only workplace studies conceal the labor-capital conflict of interest — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2094; Analyzing only subjective workplace reactions obscures the underlying management-labor conflict — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2094; Excluding class conflict from workplace research distorts what the research measures — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 517 (+1 more)