Workers support board-level participation once representatives explain its directive power.

Evidence

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, 2074

Categorization

• QUESTION: Implies worker apathy about participation is an information/education gap rather than genuine preference — worth chasing how the study authors reconciled this with their methodological caution.
• XREF: connects to: Rank-and-file shop committees turned strikes into organs of workers’ control — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 475; Participation and collective decision-making neutralize rather than redistribute subordinate power — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 800; Factory councils aimed to merge economics and politics through workers’ control — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 581 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Participation and collective decision-making neutralize rather than redistribute subordinate power #complicates (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 800
• Rank-and-file shop committees turned strikes into organs of workers’ control #corroborates (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 475
• Factory councils aimed to merge economics and politics through workers’ control #expands (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 581
• Transparancy and accountability can enhance citizen participation in democracy. #expands (0.72) — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 1565