Industrial aggression

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The Anglicism Industrial Aggression ( German  Industrial Aggression ) describes in sociology the spontaneous and violent protest or resistance action by employees against things or people in their immediate work environment . The term is also used in forensic psychology.

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Industrial aggression is an embryonic form of industrial action and occurs primarily in restrictive and monotonous work processes (e.g. assembly lines ). The sociologist Rainer-W. Hoffmann differentiates between two "resigned impotent acts" as a reaction to rushed work and permanently frustrating stress: in addition to the "silent, tolerant variant (e.g. absenteeism , company alcoholism , drug use at work ) (...) an aggressive variant" called industrial aggression. This can lead to vandalism . As an “abreaction” of pent-up work suffering , it is about individual eruptive acts of violence against work equipment , work products or superiors . For example, acts of vandalism in American automobile plants during the 1970s achieved wide publicity. Sabotage is related to industrial aggression , but unlike it, it is usually carried out in a deliberate and covert way.

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literature

  • Rainer-W. Hoffmann: Arbeitsqual und industrial aggression , in: Martin Osterland (ed.): Work situation, life situation and conflict potential, Festschrift for Max E. Graf zu Solms-Roedelheim, series of studies by SOFI Göttingen, Frankfurt / Cologne 1975, pp. 107–123.
  • Günter Wallraff : On the assembly line , in: Ders .: We need you. As a worker in industrial companies , Munich 1966
  • JT Ludeke: Industrial Aggression , in The Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences , Volume 11 Issue 3; March 1979; Pp. 126-138. ISSN  0045-0618

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documented in: Newsweek, May 17, 1971, pp. 54–56; Der Spiegel of January 31, 1972, p. 87.