Social and Economic Systems Studies: The Journal of the Japan Association for Social and Economic Systems Studies
Online ISSN : 2432-6550
Print ISSN : 0913-5472
The Informationized Society and Trade Unionism
Satoshi BANDO
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1985 Volume 3 Pages 60-65

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It is doubtless that trade union has become stabilized as the system of industrial relations in the developing country. However, recently trade union in that coutry seems declining in bargaining and organizing power from the time of the recession by oil-panic. On my opinion this problem comes from not only the recession but also mainly the changing from Industrial-Society to Post-Industrial-Society, which is same to Informationized Society in concept of the civilization. It is well-known that the factory system started from the time of The 1st industrial revolution, by which Industrial-Society started, still more trade unionism started too. Machines came into factories, manual skillnesses were spoiled and machineworkers were belonged to machine. On the next stage The 2nd industrial revolution developed factory from machine to equipment, built combined machines with control mecahnism. Charactaristic factory was assembly system, main workers were occupied by semi-skilled assemblers. The 3rd industrial revolution started by micro electronics; robot, flexible system and another computer equipment promote FA OA HA. ME-equipment has controllable mechanics with information equipment, therefore workers must have each position related information control worker, and there is no distrinction between blue and white collar worker. Very many soft workers should be needed and more for human services. The 3rd industrial revolution and Informationized Society start on the same time. New wave of trade union will be born from these new industrial relations and working systems.

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