Tukumtsev B.G., Bocharov V.Y. Low Standard Of Living as a Social Obstacle on the Way of Industrial Modernization. Peterburgskaya sociologiya segodnya [Petersburg sociology today], 2018, Issue 10, pp. 7-37.

Abstract

This article gives reasons for changing the state policy in the field of wages of industrial enterprises’ employees. Decent wages in these enterprises are considered in the article as a precondition for the implementation of the process of industrial modernization and an important step in the formation of the new type of industrial workers. The practices of governmental control over the rate of wages are also analyzed. The article relies on the data of sociological research carried out by the authors in one of the Volga regions in the form of monitoring during 2002-2014, as well as on the regional statistics.