Ministry of Foreign Affairs a request for action (through the Ukrainian diplomatic
mission in Riga, Reveli and Helsingfors) to take measures to purchase materials on
labour protection. The first in the list of requested materials was the paper of O. Bykov
"Factory Law and its Development in Russia".
О. Klepikov (pseudonym S. Hvozdiev) paid attention to the field of distribution
of factory supervision and highlighted the problems of normative definition of
enterprises that were subject to inspections of factory inspectors, analyzed the powers
of the Main and provincial govenors on factory affairs. Reflecting on the subjective
assessment of the work of inspections, S. Hvozdiev, nevertheless, noted the desire of
inspectors to implement the "concept of legality" [8, p. 225].
Prominent Russian scientist L. Tal, skillfully using comparative and legal,
historical and legal methods of research, formed the foundations of the theory of
modern labour law, saw in the industrial law the combination of public and private
bases. The scientist considered that subject of public industrial law are relations related
to the application of laws that concerned the conditions of labour protection, the
organization of supervision of industry [9, p. 2-3].
The development of factory legislation has given impetus to the research of public
aspects of legal relations in the field of labour within police (administrative) law;
therefore, a separate group of pre-revolutionary historiography consists of the papers
of police law scientists (administrative law researchers) M. Bunge, V. Hahen,
V. Deriuzhynskyi, V. Hessen and others. In particular, V. Deriuzhynskyi referred
factory legislation to the institutes of police law, defining it as a set of rules regulating
the relationships between entrepreneurs and workers and protecting the interests of the
latter from the adverse effect of the conditions of large production [10, p. 478-479].
Soviet historiography. Analyzing the Soviet historiography with its
overideology, careful attention to the labour issue as part of "... a broader socialist
experiment on the solution of issues of labour issues" [11, p. 26], it is possible to
distinguish in its development a number of stages due to certain changes in the political
course of the Soviet regime, accompanied by their transformations in legislation and
the appropriate opportunities for conducting scientific research.
The first period (1917-1921 years) covered the years of Soviet rule, when the first
decrees in the field of labour and the Code of Laws on Labour (hereinafter − Labour
Code) of the RSFSR in 1918 were adopted. This insignificant time-bound period was
marked by the adaptation of legal science to new postulates that were based on the
denial of bourgeois law and the emphasis on the peculiarities of a new proletarian
labour law as a pre-revolutionary antipode. At this time, only separate studios of
lawyers-scientists saw the world, in particular the published text of the lecture of
Z. Tettenborn, read by her at courses for labour inspectors [12]. In 1920, one of the
first editions of S. Kaplun was published the organizer and head of the sanitary
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