ABSTRACT
As noted in the first part of this paper, our study attempts to use official statistical materials to highlight the basic directions and quantitative characteristics of development of the socio-occupational structure of mature socialist society—to examine, that is, the composition and changing relative importance of major occupational groups, membership in which affects not only the content of labor activity but also working people's entire social profile. Given the nature of available statistical materials, the most important of these groups may be determined by distinguishing occupations, first, according to the complexity and nature of the work performed and, second, according to their association with the technical/technological types of production that are prevalent in our country's economy (the early industrial, assembly-line industrial, and scientific-industrial types).
