Organisation of Social Labour, a method of amalgamating direct producers and linking them with the means of production. The organisation of social labour has the following common features: 1) the aim of organising labour; 2) methods of involving people in labour; 3) social form of cooperation and division of labour. All these features are concrete historical and depend on the social form of production. The capitalist organisation of social labour, which is subordinated to the aim of extracting maximum profit (see Profit, Capitalist), is the organisation of wage labour. It develops spontaneously and even during state-monopoly regulation cannot ensure a correspondence between the requirements of the modern productive forces and the organisation of labour on a social scale. The socialist organisation of social labour arises and develops on the basis of the social ownership of the means of production and, in turn, serves as a sphere, a form of realisation of this ownership and of its gradual evolution into communist ownership. The organisation of social labour is directly linked with its productivity. Lenin pointed out that under socialism "... there necessarily comes to the forefront the fundamental task of creating a social system superior to capitalism, 260 namely, raising the productivity of labour, and in this connection (and for this purpose) securing better organisation of labour" (V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 27, p. 257). The socialist organisation of social labour combines the means of production corresponding to the modern level of development of science and technology with the worker free from exploitation. It is based on relations of comradely cooperation and planned regulation of labour throughout society as a whole, and is subordinated to the task of most fully satisfying the material and cultural requirements of the people. In the period of the scientific and technological revolution, the links in the system of the economy become more complicated, the technology of manufacturing a broad range of products is improved, specialisation and cooperation of production is deepened, and machines, technology and other conditions of production are upgraded. All this determines a qualitatively new approach to improving the organisation of social labour, Its essence lies in creating an organisational structure that will ensure high production efficiency and the best conditions for the comprehensive and harmonious development of the working people.