Bezrabotitsa, obostrivshayasya v SSSR v 1920-e gody, zatronula zhiznennye interesy mnogikh millionov sovetskikh grazhdan. Bezrabotitsa kak sotsial'noe yavlenie v svoyu ochered' porozhdala tselyy ryad drugikh yavleniy, nosyashchikh sotsial'no negativnyy kharakter. Stremlenie trudoustroit'sya lyubym sposobom privodilo k shirokomu razvitiyu protektsionizma i kumovstva, vzyatochnichestva na birzhakh truda. Bezrabotitsa tolkala tysyachi otchayavshikhsya nayti rabotu zhenshchin na put' prostitutsii. Dovedennye do krayney stepeni otchayaniya bezrabotnye yavlyalis' blagodatnoy sotsial'noy gruppoy dlya propagandy antisemitizma i antisovetskikh vystupleniy. Krome togo, poluchenie statusa bezrabotnogo bylo zamanchivym dlya razlichnogo roda "del'tsov" (spekulyantov, torgovtsev, t.n. "byvshikh lyudey") tak kak predostavlyalo im raznoobraznye l'goty v povsednevnoy zhizni. Eto v svoyu ochered' sozdavalo blagopriyatnuyu pochvu dlya razvitiya i protsvetaniya korruptsii na birzhakh truda, v gosudarstvennom i partiynom apparate. V dannoy monografii, adresovannoy kak spetsialistam-istorikam, tak i vsem interesuyushchimsya sotsial'noy istoriey Rossii 1920-kh godov, sdelana popytka issledovaniya perechislennykh sotsial'nykh anomaliy na primere sovetskogo Tatarstana.