ABSTRACT
Scientific-technological progress, particularly such of its manifestations as the growth of machinery per worker, the increased specialization of labor, and the actual growth of the socialization of production, is the principal cause of the objective increase in the role of the human factor in production. The transformation of qualified engineers into workers and economic managers into subordinates confirms the inability of the existing system of management to secure the effective functioning of society’s social resources. Social policy embraces the activity of the party and the state in the management of society’s social structure, that is, in the regulation of the status, relationships, and interaction of basic social groups. The bulk of the working people employed in social production are unquestionably the party’s social base of support in the struggle for the restructuring of production relations and the acceleration of the country’s development.
