Monografiya yavlyaetsya pervym original'nym issledovaniem profsoyuzov v kachestve sotsial'nogo instituta. Rassmatrivaetsya stanovlenie i razvitie profsoyuzov, izmenenie ikh statusa i funktsiy v usloviyakh politicheskogo i sotsial'no-ekonomicheskogo reformirovaniya rossiyskogo obshchestva. Na baze obshirnykh teoreticheskikh i empiricheskikh issledovaniy raskryvayutsya naibolee aktual'nye problemy, stoyashchie pered profsoyuzami sovremennoy Rossii, vyskazyvayutsya suzhdeniya i predlozheniya po sovershenstvovaniyu profsoyuznoy raboty, motivatsii profsoyuznoy aktivnosti grazhdan. Kniga adresovana profsoyuznym rabotnikam i aktivistam, ikh sotsial'nym partneram, uchenym, prepodavatelyam, aspirantam i studentam, vsem, kto interesuetsya voprosami teorii i praktiki profsoyuznogo dvizheniya, kogo volnuyut problemy povysheniya roli profsoyuzov v transformiruyushchemsya rossiyskom obshchestve.