The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.

　　結(jié)構(gòu)分析:句子的框架是The paid manager was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen…。acting for the company做the paid manager的定語，which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away做that familiar personal knowledge的定語，now passing away做the old family business的定語。

　　譯文:受聘于公司并代表公司的經(jīng)理與工人及其需求的關(guān)系更加直接，但是,就連他對(duì)工人們也沒有那種熟識(shí)的私人之間的了解。而在現(xiàn)在，正在消失的古老家族公司的那種更加家長式制度下的雇主們，卻常常對(duì)他們的工人有這樣的私人關(guān)系。