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The sociological theory of industrial relations has become important for the study of human aspects of industrialization and urban industrial societies. The main problem is now the way to gain industrial democracy and the way to find methodology for grasping special or synthetic concept about industrial relations.
Industrialism brought forth employer-employee relations, technological development and changes of organization. Traditionalism was gradually destroyed in some factors of per-industrial communities. The paper deals with some changing elements, social and organizational, which make up the historical patterns of industrial relations systems. Those are ideologies of management, personalities of the workers social relations of industry and the community, and finally the technical patterns of industrial organization.
These factors in modern society originate from the structure of traditional communities. The traditionalism is, however, to be conquered by industrialization, urbanization, reactions of trade unionism as well as innovations. Thus the way to industrial democracy is oriented to the denial of this traditionalism.
This study provides a perspective that brings better understanding to and reseach method for this field, introducing a comparative case study of two industries in Hokkaido.
