Working out of bills on insurance of workers in governmental structures and their discussion in the State Duma in 1905–1

The process of discussion and application of legal acts regulating the insurance of workers in the Russian Empire in prewar years is considered in the article. The authors have shown that in historical and legal literature there were observed different assessments of the given process and have marked that the adoption of laws on insurance workers promoted the decrease of police control for “working question”, creation of definite compromise between capital and hired labor.