Abstract
Defined here as the specifically historical category, “industrial relations” (Lohnarbeit u. Kapital Beziehung), whose historical phase was clearly marked by the “Manifest der kommunistischen Partei” (1848), was born in the establishing process of the productive relations of the modern capitalism. But now, it may be, in a certain sense, thrembling from its whole base. (its concrete discussions are beyond the present analysis.) Despite of it, we are committing ourselves to the “genetische Begriffsbildung” and endeavour to make clear of the fundamental lines of its developments.
Keeping the perspective of the comparative history of “industrial relations”, this paper deals with the U.S. iron and steel industry ; Since, the first, this industry was, as in the developed capitalistic countries, the motive power of the American monopolistic capitalism. The second, The Amalgamated Association of the Iron and Steel Workers, which had been reorganized in 1876 (compromising the principles of the craft unionism), played an important role as the president union in the creation of A.F.L. And the third, following the analysis of Mr. Ken Kurita, it is possible to say that, “the mechanism of labour market in the representative or fundamental industry (in this case, the U.S. iron and steel industry) has shown the typical one at that time.”
Using the U.S. Senate's Reports or “Pittsburgh Survey”, we analyze “the monopolistic and paternalistic industrial relations” in detail from the point of (subjective and objective) strain-chances analysis, especially emphasize the “Trager” and new “Idee” (the industrial unionism). It must be remembered that, the unskilled or semiskilled labourers different from the skilled workers by the structure of the labour market (the promotion spstem) and so on, which emerged at this period significantly, were filled with the immigrants from the eastern-southern Europe whose previous occupations were overwhelmingly the agricultural ones and the this “soziale Schichtung” (especially oriented to “Americanization” -which implies “Democracy in Industry”), with the semiskilled natives, was preconcerted to be ' the breaker-through ' of the established pattern of the industrial relations.
