CONCLUSION
Taking into account that the first scholars in labour law were both academic
scholars and factory inspectors, government officials, representatives of various
political forces, the features of imperial historiography include: 1) the presence of so-
called imperial consciousness, especially among civil servants, which imprinted on the
nature of a number of studies, minimizing the disadvantages of current legislation;
2) sympathy with the socialist ideas of representatives of the Marxist direction and
social-democratic views, reflected in the one-sided treatment of the labour issue;
3) fairly widespread use of methods of historical and legal and comparative and legal
research; 4) analyzing the factorial inspections of significant factual material by the
factory inspectors; 5) the legislative and normative nature of most researches, since
factory legislation was only formed, laying the foundations of industrial, in the future −
worker and labour law, and theoretical generalizations appeared somewhat later.
Soviet historiography within the research seems possible to be divided into four
periods, which have own peculiarities. In the early stages of the existence of the Soviet
model of supervision and control, which was implemented through a wide network of
legal, technical and sanitary inspections, the researchers substantiated a qualitatively
new approach in the organization of supervision and control through a critical
comparison with the factory legislation of the Russian Empire and the practice of
foreign countries. Following the transfer of labour inspections to the VTsSPS and the
reduction of legal inspections, scientists continued to study the activities of the
technical inspection and its implementation of special state supervision in the order of
powers delegated to trade unions, which led, from the 1960s, to proposals for the
resumption of state legal inspections. Characterizing the Soviet period, one can not fail
to mention the well-known fact that labour law science was one of the most ideologized
ones, since it addressed issues such as the role of trade unions, the industrial and social
functions of labour law, the relation between state, social, national, party control and
their significance in the realization of the state power of the dictatorship of the
proletariat.
A qualitatively new period in the research of both theory and the history of labour
law in general, as well as organizational and legal models of supervision and control
in Ukraine, in particular, began with the achievement of independence. Such
determinants as the dismantling of the party-ideological component, the liberalization
of social life, the return to the concept of natural law, allowed enriching science with
the new methodological approaches and contributed to a rethinking of the persistent
views on the phenomena of state and legal reality in their historical context.
Foreign historiography is represented predominantly by Russian specialists’
papers. Among Western developments, the following main areas can be distinguished:
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