Union research institutes commissioned major factory studies in early 1950s West Germany.

Evidence

Another of the four principal studies in industrial sociology of the period was the factory questionnaire carried out in 1952-3 by a research team consisting of Theo Pirker, Siegfried Braun, Burkart Lutz and Fro Hammelrath, for the trade unions’ Institute of Economic Science (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Institut). Their results were published in 1955 as Workers, Management, and Worker Participation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 515

Categorization

• SHARE: An archival-grade detail (research team members, dates, publisher) for anyone tracking the trade-union side of German industrial sociology.
• XREF: connects to: The Institute marketed its research as serving German industry and state — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 518; The Mannesmann worker-participation study interviewed over a thousand workers in 1955 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2063; The Institute’s postwar research agenda covered industry, labor, schooling, and elections — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 758
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute marketed its research as serving German industry and state — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 518; The Mannesmann worker-participation study interviewed over a thousand workers in 1955 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2063; The Institute’s postwar research agenda covered industry, labor, schooling, and elections — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 758

Broader Connections

• The Mannesmann worker-participation study interviewed over a thousand workers in 1955 #exemplifies (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2063