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.