DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN LEGISLATION
This article discusses the formation and transformation of the Russian labor legislation associated with both the global trends in this area and national changes in the political, economic and social situation. The main legal indicators of reforming social and labor relations revealing the state goals and objectives in specific historical periods are identified: during the century four codifications in the labor sphere were considered and adopted. The peculiarities of adoption, content and main differences from the previous labor legislation codes in each labor normative-legal act are analyzed. Described also are the activities of employees protecting their rights during the first third of the XX century, which consisted mainly in mass protests, mostly related to material factors - non-payment or delay of wages, as well as requirements for increasing the working time length and obtaining permission for additional earnings. The content analysis enabled to anayze the key elements of specific codes content of labor laws, identifying attempts of transition to social partnership system: “trade unions and associations”, “rights and obligations of the employee”, “labor rights of women and minors”, “state role in solving labor problems”, “remuneration for work”, “employment contract”, “collective bargaining”, “conflict commissions”, “strikes”. The problems of modern social and labor relations in Russia, the main of which is a long period of change in the value orientations and attitudes from paternalistic views to social and partnership ideas about role of the state, employers and employees in the market economy are revealed.