The role of the Council of Ministers in the implementation of legal regulation of the labor of foreign workers in the far east of the Russian empire (1907-1914)

Abstract

Studying the role of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire in the implementation of legal regulation of the labor of foreign workers on the territory of the Russian Far East allows to get a deeper understanding of general immigration legislation, the development of labor relations, the legal status of foreign nationals, as well as the imperial policy in relation to national outskirts in pre-revolutionary Russia. In addition, the article aims to show the significance of the decisions of the Council of Ministers in determining the course of legislative policy in relation to the labor of foreigners, as well as to trace the interaction on these issues with other state institutions. As a result of the study, the authors come to the conclusion that the laws aimed at regulating the labor of foreigners in the Far East, based on a weak socioeconomic rationale, already in their norms had provisions on the right of the Council of Ministers to make decisions on exceptions to the general rules. However, public opinion, the efforts of local governor-generals and the demands of the country's defense became an incentive for the Council of Ministers to plan new measures to restrict foreign labor in the Far East until the outbreak of the First World War. Copyright © 2021 by Cherkas Global University.