ABSTRACT
The structure of the Soviet working class is ceasing primarily to be uniformly production-based, socio-occupational in nature. The dialectics of the formation of social homogeneity of Soviet society consists all else in the fact that the gradual erasing of social boundaries is being accompanied by a certain complication of the entire social structure. Historically, under capitalism the working class was formed primarily in urban areas — even more narrowly, in such primarily urban branches of the economy as industry and construction. The traditional conception of the working class that underlies all official statistical data assumes that workers include people engaged primarily in manual labor and working for hire in state enterprises and institutions. Scientific institutions, the majority of which are inseparably linked with material production, employ approximately another 8% of specialists. The tasks of successful management of social processes demand intensive study of shifts that are occurring or are beginning to manifest themselves.
