The Role of Factory Inspection in the Regulation of Labor Relations in Russia at the Turn of the XIX-XX Centuries

The purpose of the article is to study the features of the formation and development of labor legislation in post-reform Russia, the role and significance of the factory inspection as a state body that supervised labor relations. The object of the study is public relations associated with the activities of the factory inspection to oversee the compliance of entrepreneurs with the labor legislation established by the Russian state in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. At the same time, the subject of research is the regulatory legal acts regulating the activities of factory inspectors, materials from periodicals, archival documents. Within the framework of the research methodology, using historical-legal, comparative-legal and comparative-historical methods, an analysis was made of the activities of factory inspectors in monitoring compliance with labor laws by entrepreneurs. Based on a number of sources, the authors study the process of formation and development of labor legislation in post-reform Russia, determine the role and importance of the factory inspection as a supervisory authority in the field of labor relations. At the same time, the role of the Ministry of the Interior in the creation of a factory inspection is highlighted. The article also reveals the nature of the disagreements between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire in the "working issue" and the departmental affiliation of the factory inspection. It is concluded that the factory inspection in the period under review, as a whole, performed the functions assigned to it. However, the effectiveness of factory inspectors was largely negatively affected by the inconsistency and inconsistency of state policy on the labor issue, the imperfection of the regulatory framework for regulating relations between entrepreneurs and employees, the ambiguity of the legislatively fixed status and competence of factory inspectors.

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire, labor relations, labor legislation, labor legislation, labor issue, labor movement, strike movement, factory inspection, factory inspector