Milushka Elizabeth Proaño Torres, Víctor Julio Jácome Calvache, Wendy Pilar Romero Noboa
Este artículo analiza la política de financiamiento productivo dirigida a las mujeres rurales e impulsada por el gobierno ecuatoriano en los años 2020-2021; en específico, el producto financiero denominado “Súper Mujer Rural”, mismo que fue ofertado por la banca pública. La información se obtuvo mediante una metodología cualitativa de corte etnográfico y del análisis de la documentación generada por instituciones estatales. Este trabajo se centró en las experiencias de un grupo de mujeres radicadas en la provincia amazónica de Sucumbíos; de esta manera, se evidenció que algunas mujeres rurales aprovecharon esta oportunidad, pero enfrentaron dificultades durante el proceso de calificación y acceso al crédito. Por medio de sus relatos, por un lado, se puntualizó la contribución que tuvo dicho crédito en el fortalecimiento productivo de sus emprendimientos y unidades domésticas; por otro lado, se concluyó que este financiamiento no permite superar las problemáticas estructurales que las mujeres rurales enfrentan.
Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform, Sociology (General)
This article describes the history of the first journal in the field of public health in Poland in the last quarter of a century. With the political and economic transformation of the country in the 1990s, the organisation and funding of science were changed. In the social sciences, new journals were being created and the conduct of the old ones was changed. In the context of public health, it basically meant starting from scratch, although the more general issues of disease prevention and the organisation of healthcare were not only covered in medical courses, but also by a certain amount of writing in medical journals. The journal (hereafter “Zeszyty Naukowe”) included two areas of interest in its title. One was knowledge and concern for population health (rather than disease treatment). The other, institutional change in health sector governance. Due to the wide range of topics declared for publication in the “Zeszyty Naukowe”, the publishing policy was geared towards creating monothematic issues, inviting specialists in the field to lead them. In this way, mini handbooks of important healthcare topics were created. They were of great interest and enjoyed recognition not only in the scientific community, but also in the practice of health sector policy makers. The reform of the organisation of science and the introduction of the new public management (NPM) to academic institutions; also concerned scientific journals. They were classified on the grounds of the Impact Factor score, which became the basis for evaluating the achievements of authors and the funding of journals from public funds. An important criterion was the so-called internationalisation of journals. In subsequent years, the so-called ministerial criteria, formulated by the political authorities of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, were added. Under these conditions, “Zeszyty Naukowe” were losing points, authors’ offers and a source of funding. At the same time, the range of public health and health sector management problems was increasing dramatically (not only the COVID-19 pandemic) and the urgency of their presentation and debate was rising as well. In 2025, with subsequent political changes, efforts were made to save the “Zeszyty Naukowe” as a journal addressed to the scientific community and, at the same time, to health care practitioners.
The theory of social pathology originated in Germany in early 20th century, owing to Alfred Grotjahn, the founder of scientific school of social hygiene. Both German and Russian social hygienists ran into problem of definition of concept “social pathology” and its scientific methods and theory. The ideas of Grotjahn on social pathology were largely introduced in the Imperial Russia due to energetic activities of L. B. Granovsky, member of the Pirogov Society. In the 1920s, the Soviet social hygienists explored social pathology from both practical and theoretical points of view. The Soviet academic literature developed theoretical approach to social pathology based on work of Benno Hayes, follower of Grotjahn. The theory of Chajes in sphere of social pathology differed from original theory of Grotjahn. In Russia, the German concept of social pathology was adapted under the influence of the Soviet ideology and the Marxist understanding of history. In the University clinic, on the basis of ideas of Grotjahn, practical approach was realized that received support from N. A. Semashko, the Peoples Commissar of Health Care. Within the framework of this approach attempts were made to examine relationship between etiology of diseases and impact of environment.
José David Gutiérrez Sánchez, María Martos Lozano, Francisco Estepa Maestre
Este trabajo tiene por propósito central estudiar la inserción laboral de egresados de Trabajo Social de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla entre 2019 y 2022. Partiendo de la realización de un cuestionario a 68 jóvenes entre 20 y 32 años del Grado en Trabajo Social, Doble Grado en Trabajo Social y Educación Social y el Doble Grado de Trabajo Social y Sociología, se obtuvo información sobre aspectos socioeconómicos, formativos y laborales. Los resultados indican como aquellas personas recién graduadas albergan mayores dificultades en la obtención de un empleo propio de la profesión. Por otro lado, aquellas personas que previamente estudiaron formación profesional y posteriormente el Grado, disponen de probabilidades elevadas de encontrar empleo si se compara con aquellas que solo estudiaron la carrera. Además, estar colegiados profesionalmente cataliza la posibilidad de trabajar en el ámbito de estudio. Por último, cabe seguir explorando aquellas situaciones complejas a nivel personal y social que ralentizan los procesos de incorporación laboral y visibilizar aquellos aspectos que permiten una incorporación laboral más directa.
Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform, Social sciences (General)
Corruption can be understood as a social phenomenon that emerges from a complex interplay of political, social, and economic factors, particularly in countries undergoing the process of state formation. Notwithstanding the existence of long-standing democratic traditions and a considerable history of anti-corruption measures, this negative phenomenon persists in European Union Member States. In developed countries, the conditions for countering corruption are more favourable; nevertheless, it remains a significant problem. In Ukraine, which is undergoing a process of democratisation of its governmental structure, corruption represents a significant challenge. Radical reforms of the administrative, socio-economic and legal systems are contributing to the emergence of new corruption threats that require active counteraction. The effective fight against corruption is one of the key factors in the development of public administration, ensuring economic stability and public confidence in state institutions. The analysis of economic and legal aspects of combating corruption in administrative law is of particular importance for understanding the ways to overcome this phenomenon and build effective prevention mechanisms. The objective of this study is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the legal and economic mechanisms that can be employed to combat corruption in the context of administrative law. The research methodology employs a range of methods, including policy analysis, empirical methods and comparative methods. This article examines the principles of combating corruption in administrative law, with a particular focus on the economic and legal aspects. Corruption represents a significant challenge to the stable development of society and the economy. In the context of globalisation and current management reforms, the issue of combating corruption is particularly salient. The principal administrative and legal instruments for combating corruption are examined, together with their impact on the country's economic development.
The article is devoted to the problem of legal regulation of the activities of officers of the police guard of the Russian Empire, whose positions were introduced in 1906 as part of one of the “micro-reforms” of the county police. On the basis of a significant array of archival materials (some of which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time), the regulatory support for the establishment and recruitment of police officers, their awarding and promotion to ranks, social guarantees, horse stock and uniforms is being considered. Special attention is paid to the duties of managing the combat unit of the police guard. The conclusion is made about the duality of the legal status of the officers of the guard, who were considered to have been on active military service and, according to their rights and duties, were, in many respects, in equivalent conditions with representatives of a Separate corps of gendarmes.
El presente artículo recoge nuestro interés por aproximarnos a los principales mercados de trabajo de la industria del vestido al servicio de las reinas consortes de España. Las protagonistas de las siguientes páginas son las artesanas de la apariencia de la realeza femenina. El marco cronológico seleccionado va de 1790 a 1830, período para el que analizaremos los principales centros de confección y tiendas de las modistas afincadas en Madrid. Asimismo, examinaremos a las principales modistas que trabajaban para las soberanas consortes, ubicaremos sus tiendas y expondremos las diferencias salariales entre las modistas y los sastres dentro de Palacio. Las fuentes empleadas para esta panorámica general del trabajo de las modistas proceden de los fondos de: Archivo General de Palacio, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Archivo Histórico de Protocolos y Archivo de la Villa, todos ellos ubicados en Madrid
History of Civilization, History (General) and history of Europe
In 2022, the global commercial surrogacy industry was valued at approximately US$14 billion. This paper explores the issue of surrogacy to reveal how international human rights standards and labor laws treat reproduction as work, building on previous scholarship analyzing similar framing at the grassroots level in Mexico. I argue that the failure to recognize surrogacy as labor is rooted in three lacunae: (1) contemporary policies and practices around surrogacy globally pay little attention to the well-being and rights fulfillment of surrogates themselves, particularly the economic rights of surrogates; (2) the stigma of surrogacy as sexualized care work results in neglect of the labor rights of surrogates in mainstream economic rights discourses; and (3) relevant international rights law has not yet addressed the economic rights of surrogates, nor has it effectively articulated the interdependent relationship between economic rights and reproductive rights. Lastly, I discuss where reproductive rights and economic rights overlap in existing human rights conventions and standards and what possibilities these offer for articulating the interdependence of reproductive and economic rights and for advancing the labor rights of surrogates.
Public aspects of medicine, Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Introduction This research is about the power of documents as recorders of history and preservers of institutional memory. Specifically, the study examines Project 1012, a municipal reform project in Amsterdam’s famous Red-Light District. Methods We performed a critical discourse analysis on 10 policy briefs leading up to and following the implementation of Project 1012 between 2007 and 2020. Results Our study reveals that the documents actively evoke certain narratives about sex work, its historical connections to the city, and its social problems to support the reduction of the industry. The documents omit other information about the history and origins of the problems experienced in Amsterdam’s Red-Light District, including policymakers’ own roles in the creation of these issues. Conclusions The research concludes that policy documents have deontic powers and can be considered “folded objects” that consistently present certain narratives as truthful by omitting or downplaying the historical context of social issues. By folding these narratives in themselves, they have the power to shape the futures of the city and its citizens, executing a myriad of changes that have significantly impacted the lives and work conditions of local sex workers. Policy Implications This research highlights the importance of being aware of the power and potential biases inherent in policy documents. Policymakers should strive to create policies that are based on accurate and comprehensive information and consider the voices of marginalized groups, such as sex workers, who are disproportionately affected by the policies.
There has been increasing use of interactive technologies in the classroom today and a rising popularity of employing virtual environments as a means to engage students in sensorially rich contexts for more embodied forms of experiential learning. In particular, virtual reality (VR) or immersive virtual environments (IVEs) facilitated by head-mounted displays (HMDs) have been used in the teaching of subject content such as history, geography and science. This article presents the findings of an exploratory study of immersive technology, specifically immersive virtual environments (IVES), for the purpose of social and emotional learning (SEL), in the context of Character and Citizenship lessons in the Singapore classroom. The social and emotional competencies (SECs) examined in this project were specifically empathy and perspective-taking, and responsible decision-making. The study involved a sample of n = 75 students from a cohort of students in a Singapore school, averaged at 15 years of age. Students were randomly divided into three treatment conditions: IVEs, pen-and-paper mental simulation and video-viewing. Each treatment contained a problem scenario, told from a first-person perspective, involving a social and ethical dilemma young people today face. A quasi-experimental, pre-test post-test, non-equivalent group design was employed, and the study adopted a mixed-method approach to data collection. The findings reveal that IVEs are not necessarily more effective than the “pen-and-paper” and video viewing approaches to teaching SECs but they can better facilitate perspective-taking and empathy for a higher percentage of students.
Автором статьи рассматривается возможность и необходимость использования художественной литературы как дополняющего исторического источника. В статье проведен анализ позиции исследователей-историков, политических деятелей, писателей о роли художественных текстов в изучении истории. Раскрываются функции художественного образа, создаваемого автором произведения как современника эпохи. Ценность художественного образа как источника исторической информации представлена в контексте отражения характерных особенностей человека, социальных проблем, состояния культуры. Автор статьи обращает внимание на использование художественных текстов в рамках применения метода микроисторического исследования, позволяющего вводить в научный оборот новые источники. Уникальность художественных произведений как носителей исторической информации отмечается в контексте возможности более глубокого и чувственного осмысления происходящих в описываемый период исторических событий и явлений, эмоциональной реакции на них современников, в том числе и автора произведения. Обращение к художественной литературе при проведении исторических исследований соответствует требованиям, предъявляемым к организации современных исследований, позволяет обеспечить их междисциплинарность и кроссдисциплинарность, что в конечном счете благоприятно сказывается на достижении достоверного исследовательского результата и возможности его аргументированного обоснования. Одним из важных условий, способствующих комплексному и системному изучению истории, является наличие взаимосвязи и взаимодополняемости научной методологии в использовании источников художественной литературы как пространства, раскрывающего ценностные ориентиры, социальные нормы общества, повседневную жизнь человека эпохи. Автор статьи, опираясь на результаты исследований об использовании художественной литературы в качестве исторического источника, делает вывод о том, что это не только возможно, но и целесообразно, поскольку способствует созданию полноценного представления об истории и месте человека в ней, о его духовно-нравственном мире. The author of the article considers the possibility and necessity of using fiction as a complementary historical source. The article analyzes the position of historical researchers, politicians, writers on the role of literary texts in the study of history. The functions of the artistic image created by the author of the work as a contemporary of the epoch are revealed. The value of an artistic image as a source of historical information is presented in the context of reflecting the characteristic features of a person, social problems, and the state of culture. The author of the article draws attention to the fact that the use of literary texts can be carried out within the framework of the application of the method of microhistoric research, which allows introducing new sources into scientific circulation. The uniqueness of artistic works as carriers of historical information is noted in the context of the possibility of a deeper and more sensual understanding of historical events and phenomena occurring in the period described, the emotional reaction of contemporaries to them, including the author of the work. The appeal to fiction when conducting historical research meets the requirements for the organization of modern research, allows them to ensure their interdisciplinarity and crossdisciplinarity, which ultimately has a positive effect on achieving a reliable research result and the possibility of its reasoned justification. One of the important conditions contributing to the comprehensive and systematic study of history is the existence of interrelation and complementarity of scientific methodology in the use of sources and means of fiction as a space that reveals value orientations, social norms of society, the daily life of a person of the epoch. The author of the article, based on the results of research on the use of fiction as a historical source, concludes that this is not only possible, but also advisable, since it contributes to the creation of full-fledged ideas about history and the place of man in it, about his spiritual and moral world.
Administrative and territorial reform in Ukraine is coming to an end. In the socio-economic life of the country, this reform contributed to the establishment of local self-government, in urban planning activities began spatial planning, the main task of which is the development of comprehensive plans for spatial development of the territories of united territorial communities. According to the current legislation, the main subject of local self-government in Ukraine is a united territorial community. Adoption of the Law 711-IX "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Land Use Planning" provides for the development of special urban planning documentation, which extends its effect to the community, which in turn allows the united territorial community to determine the planning and development of its own territory. Law 711-IX also introduces a new type of urban planning documentation - a comprehensive plan for the spatial development of the territory of the united territorial community. In order to successfully implement this project, it is necessary to assess all the challenges and risks in the field of administrative services, medicine, education, road and engineering infrastructure, environmental protection and cultural heritage when drawing up a community spatial development plan in modern conditions. The main problem in drawing up comprehensive plans is the spatial organization of agricultural areas and the interests of the peasant farmer, a representative of the middle class, whose opinion should be taken into account through surveys and analysis of his social and industrial activities, including taking into account his domestic and economic interests. When drawing up comprehensive spatial development plans, the project team should involve community specialists (architect, land surveyor), as well as community proxies (priests, teachers) who know regional issues, history and traditional crafts of the territories and will defend their development. As many community residents as possible should participate in the discussion and approval of project proposals for a comprehensive plan, in order to prevent resistance and understand the need to implement it.
Veronika Grimm, Franziska K. Lembcke, Milena Schwarz
Abstract The success of the vaccination campaign in Germany depends decisively on the availability of vaccines, vaccination capacities and the willingness to vaccinate. On the basis of model calculations, this article presents the possible scenarios of the vaccination progress and discusses requirements for the organisation of the vaccination campaign. It also addresses the long-term perspectives and challenges, e. g. with regard to the vaccination of children and adolescents or the global vaccination progress.
Economic theory. Demography, Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Abstract Too much blood in terms of unemployment and sweat in terms of intellectual effort has been spent on trying to determine the amount of fiscal space that economies have — our policy focus instead should be on what to do with the fiscal space that almost all advanced economies (and a surprising number of emerging market economies) actually have.
Economic theory. Demography, Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Kyle Reid, Lori-Ann R. Sacrey, L. Zwaigenbaum
et al.
Abstract Understanding differences in social-emotional behavior can help identify atypical development. This study examined the differences in social-emotional development in children at increased risk of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis (infant siblings of children diagnosed with the disorder). Parents completed the Brief Infant-Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) to determine its ability to flag children with later-diagnosed ASD in a high-risk (HR) sibling population. Parents of HR (n = 311) and low-risk (LR; no family history of ASD; n = 127) children completed the BITSEA when their children were 18 months old and all children underwent a diagnostic assessment for ASD at age 3 years. All six subscales of the BITSEA (Problems, Competence, ASD Problems, ASD Competence, Total ASD Score, and Red Flags) distinguished between those in the HR group who were diagnosed with ASD (n = 84) compared to non-ASD-diagnosed children (both HR-N and LR). One subscale (BITSEA Competence) differentiated between the HR children not diagnosed with ASD and the LR group. The results suggest that tracking early social-emotional development may have implications for all HR children, as they are at increased risk of ASD but also other developmental or mental health conditions.
Désirée I. Christofzik, Florian Dorn, Stefanie Gäbler
et al.
Abstract International organisations push for accrual accounting in the public sector. Accrual budgets should reveal the depreciation of public capital stocks and uncover implicit debt liabilities. Three recent studies evaluated the effect of accrual accounting in German local governments — with surprising key findings. Local governments using accrual accounting reduce sales of public assets but also reduce capital spending. Those new findings cast doubt about whether accrual accounting really fosters more sustainable budgeting.
Economic theory. Demography, Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
The teaching of ideological and political (IAP) courses in colleges and universities is a key stage in the growth of personality of college students, helping them establish the correct world outlook, values, and outlook on life, and guide them to establish the correct life orientation. Yunnan vocational college students have their unique characteristics. To have a good IAP course, its teaching should be sublimated and reformed from the traditional one. Starting from the important task of IAP education and the lack of IAP education in Hong Kong, this paper analyzes the existing problems in the current IAP education in Yunnan private higher vocational colleges(HVC), puts forward the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions, and expounds how to reform the current IAP teaching in HVC. It has certain reference significance for the reform of teaching concepts, teaching methods, curriculum evaluation and other aspects of IAP courses in Yunnan private HVC. 1. The significance of IAP teaching reform in Yunnan private HVC. 1.1 The necessity and significance of strengthening IAP education in colleges and universities. 1.1.1 Strengthening IAP education is an important task at present. China has entered a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, General Secretary Xi Jinping said in a speech to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we should “unswervingly shoulder the historic mission of realizing the Chinese Dream”. To this end, he put forward the strategic requirement of “training the new people of the era who are responsible for the task of national rejuvenation”. IAP education is a series of courses to cultivate people’s ideological concepts, political viewpoints. It is also an educational process, which exerts purposeful, planned and organized influence on the educated, making students form individuals with ideological and moral character. IAP education is very important, but it is difficult to implement. The IAP education in China is relatively lagging behind, and it is no longer appropriate to meet the new requirements of social development for IAP education. Due to the influence of traditional teaching and evaluation methods, the teaching work of IAP education in Yunnan private HVC become the deficiency in the field of IAP education in colleges and universities. In the new era, it is urgent to improve the teaching ability of IAP courses in private HVC. Colleges and universities are the main positions of IAP education. It is necessary to guide contemporary college students to be active, healthy and progressive, and to educate them to love the party, the motherland and socialism. IAP education in colleges and universities should also educate contemporary college students to resolutely support the party’s line, principles and policies, highly identify with Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of “three represents”, and fully trust the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee. Through the education, college students can embrace the future with “My Chinese Dream” and have full confidence in adhering to the road of socialism. At the same time, we must be soberly aware of the profound changes in the international situation and the profound changes in the domestic and international situations. IAP education is facing both favorable conditions and severe challenges. In the face of new circumstances, college 2020 International Conference on Educational Training and Educational Phenomena (ICETEP2020) DOI: 10.38007/Proceedings.0000909 ISBN: 978-1-80052-005-9 -54students are not yet adaptable to the IAP education, and there are many weak links, such as ideological laxity, greed for pleasure, addiction to the Internet, lack of struggle spirit and so on. Strengthening the “Four Consciousness”, firming the “Four Self-confidence”, achieving the “Two Maintenance”, and improving the IAP education of college students are urgent requirements for the teaching content and essence of IAP courses in colleges and universities. 1.1.2 The Hong Kong problem shows the serious consequences of the lack of education. The violence in Hong Kong, which began in July 2019, has seriously affected Hong Kong’s long-term stable economic situation and the international image of prosperity and tranquility. Regardless of whether it was the “Occupy Central” incident in December 2014 or the “Violence” incident in July 2019, many perpetrators were born in the year of Hong Kong’s return. Instigated and abetted by independent forces and anti-China forces in the west, they are deeply immersed in political fanaticism. When they pour into the streets shouting the slogans of democracy and freedom from the government-provided public housing, they are extremely angry. They feel that they are suffering from great injustice or persecution and cannot breathe, so they resist. Seeing these chaos, we cannot help but asking: In the 23 years after the return, what kind of social environment can these young people who have been favored by the motherland and enjoyed good social welfare grow to disobedient fanatics who are ignorant of history and lack of respect for the country and people! What’s wrong with the school education in Hong Kong? Apart from the destruction of foreign forces under the current Hong Kong problem, an important internal cause is that Hong Kong’s IAP education has failed: Some young students have shown narrowness, prejudice, and extremes in their ideological and cognitive aspects. The root lies in the absence and dislocation of corresponding IAP education. This has caused irreparable damage to the current and long-term development of Hong Kong, as well as great damage to the physical and mental health and long-term development of these young students. Based on the analysis of specific facts, we can draw a conclusion that college students should not only learn professional knowledge and skills, but also learn to use scientific world outlook and methodology to guide their career and social life. Through the study of IAP courses, on the basis of understanding the national conditions, public conditions and social development, college students should consciously integrate themselves into the development of society and history, and into the construction and development of the motherland. After the IAP education, college students should achieve the following three points. The first is to recognize the heritage of the Chinese nation and to recognize that they are Chinese. The second is to actively resist the challenge and encouragement of western anti-China forces in terms of recognition and judgment, and to establish a solid defense line of correct values. The third is to carefully learn IAP courses and professional lessons, to be a person with ideals, pursuit and independent thinking, to actively carry out social practice, and to make their youth shine for the motherland and for the rise of China. 2. The problems of IAP education in Yunnan private HVC. 2.1 Characteristics of Yunnan private HVC and their students. The Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government attach great importance to the development of vocational education and take this work as an in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, as well as an important livelihood work to thoroughly implement the “Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020)” and the “Decision of the State Council on Accelerating the Development of Modern Vocational Education”. By deepening the separation of “educational management, independent school running and social evaluation” in the field of education, and promoting vocational colleges to adhere to the principle of “Taking morality as the foundation, development service as the purpose and employment promotion as the orientation”. Yunnan is located in the southwestern border and belongs to the typical karst landform. In 2019,
The purpose of the article is to find out the peculiarities of the development of ethnosocial communities in the Dnipro region during the modernization period, to analyze the impact of the then industrialization and urbanization on the lives of representatives of various ethnic groups in the region. Research methods: problem-chronological, comparative historical, historical genetic. Main results: The article highlights the ethnonational composition of the population of the Yekaterinoslav province in the late XIX - early XX century and disclosed factors that influenced its formation. The attention was focused on the fact that the urban population of the Yekaterinoslav region differed significantly in its ethnic composition from the inhabitants of the province. Moreover, the more the city was, and the more clearly the industrial component was manifested in it, the less Ukrainians lived in it. It is concluded that the Ukrainian population did not determine the cultural appearance of the cities of the region and rather quickly underwent assimilation. Accordingly, the process of ethnonational modernization of the Ukrainians at that time was extremely slow. Analyzed how industrialization and urbanization affected the stereotypes of views and behavior of the representatives of the main ethnic groups of the Dnipro region. Thus, Russians and Jews, as well as representatives of German and Polish ethnic groups, were most actively involved in entrepreneurial activity in Yekaterinoslav region at that time. At the same time, the local proletariat consisted mainly of immigrants from the central Russian provinces. Attention was paid to interethnic relations in the region, it was noted that the latter were characterized not only by mutual influence, but also by numerous conflict situations. Practical significance: recommended for use in training courses and generalizing works on the history of Ukraine in the XIX – early XX centuries, as well as on the ethnopolitics. Originality: а generalized description of the situation of the main national communities of Yekaterinoslav region in the conditions of forced industrialization and urbanization processes of the post-reform period is given. Scientific novelty: for the first time, it is shown how actively ethnic Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Germans and Poles of the Yekaterinoslav region joined business activity, and also from which national groups the working class of the region was predominantly formed. Article type: explanation.