Workers define participation locally, not at the level of the economy

Evidence

Page 484 So far as worker participation was concerned, the study showed that the majority of those questioned had no clear picture either of the legal requirements or of how they were implemented. The answers expressed expectations and hopes connected with participation, and were associated with matters relating to each worker’s own job, or own factory or company, at most. Only a tenth of those questioned linked participation with the economy as a whole or with the executive level. 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. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 510

Categorization

• SHARE: The precise ladder of concern — 59% pay, 36% social questions, 26% work itself, down to 4% investment — is exactly the sort of poll breakdown a labor-history or industrial-sociology obsessive would want.
• XREF: connects to: Workers accept dominant economic narratives while acting oppositionally locally; Workers accept hegemonic economic frames while acting oppositionally at local level.; Workers’ participation demands focused on pay and immediate job matters, not structural control. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2073 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Workers accept dominant economic narratives while acting oppositionally locally; Workers accept hegemonic economic frames while acting oppositionally at local level.; Workers’ participation demands focused on pay and immediate job matters, not structural control. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2073 (+2 more)