Worker disinterest in top-level participation reflects ignorance, not lack of desire

Evidence

When they were asked directly which areas employees should have a say in, 59 per cent mentioned pay, 36 per cent mentioned social questions, and 26 per cent mentioned questions connected with the work itself. Profit-sharing, business and investment were only mentioned by 9 per cent, 5 per cent and 4 per cent respectively. … This should not lead one to conclude that employees are prepared to do without participation in the more remote' sphere because they think the sphere closer’ to them is more important. The discussions show, rather, that employees support the demand for equal participation in the remote sphere as soon as trained workers’ representatives explain to them that it is those bodies which have the greatest authority to issue directives, and that the most urgent demands can only be met by having equal participation in these top-level bodies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2073

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Caste-dictated callings breed worker aversion because they ignore individual preference — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 861; Accusations of workers’ illusions presuppose workers can have no autonomous class conception — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 514; Job qualification rises as a worker’s intellectual engagement with the task falls — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Accusations of workers’ illusions presuppose workers can have no autonomous class conception #contradicts (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 514
• Caste-dictated callings breed worker aversion because they ignore individual preference #complicates (0.80) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 861
• Job qualification rises as a worker’s intellectual engagement with the task falls #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139