Nastoyashchaya monografiya analiziruet sushchestvennyy parametr stanovleniya i funktsionirovaniya sotsial"no-gruppovoy obshchnosti - naemnye rabotniki, ikh sostav, ikh statusno - rolevye pozitsii v razlichnykh sferakh zhiznedeyatel"nosti. V rabote ispol"zovany rezul"taty empiricheskikh issledovaniy, provedennykh otdelom sotsial"noy struktury Instituta sotsiologii RAN v razlichnykh regionakh Rossiyskoy Federatsii v kontse KhKh nachale KhKhI vv. Kniga adresovana shirokomu krugu chitateley, interesuyushchikhsya dinamikoy sotsial"no-strukturnykh protsessov v transformiruyushchemsya rossiyskom obshchestve.