EN
The article discusses two basic problems connected with worker professions. The first of them concerns the role of profession and other co-existing factors (qualification, education etc.) structurslizing the working-class. The other problem is connected with the role and rank of profession(against the background of other factors: job character, education, qualifications, branch differences) as a factor distinguishing workers from other social categories. While generalizing conclusions provided by analysis of the empirical material one con say that the model of the worker as о hard working, unqualified employee begins to change slowly and that especially due to undertaking of manual work by people completing secondary vocational schools. Simultaneously workers point out that division within the work*- ing class proceeds in accordance with branch systems, level of qualifications or differences in ethical and moral characteristics of employees.