Abstract-The relevance of the problem under study is due to, on the one hand, narrowness of the methodological basis of modern labour economics for formation of a single subject field of interdisciplinary studies of social and economic transformations of the labor and entrepreneurship in the modern world. On the other hand, there is insufficiency of available methodological and methodical tools for the study of new social phenomena, born by contemporary transformations of labor and entrepreneurship. The article is aimed at substantiation of the holistic (integrative) approach to studying labor and entrepreneurship problems and creation of a unified theory of labor and entrepreneurship, as relevant tools of changing labor study in the context of a new social reality. Socioeconomic analysis is the leading method in solving the problem that allows revealing the two-way communication of economic and social processes and introducing studies of labor and entrepreneurship into the wider social context. The article shows a number of steps, making it possible to overcome the peripheral status of the labor economics and introduce it into the methodological core of modern social researches through a significant expansion of the object field of researches, updating methodological tools and increasing interdisciplinary interaction with non-economic sciences. It is shown how the complication of a conceptual labor model based on the principle of duality and bilateral socioeconomic consideration of the research subject can reveal the heuristic potential of labor socioeconomics, while retaining analytical advantages of the cost analysis, developed by the labor economics. Article materials can be useful for researchers who are interested in the issues of methodology of labor economics, labor sociology, and for a wider range of scientists and experts engaged in the development of technologies and system solutions of labor and entrepreneurship problems.
Keywords-labormethodology, socioeconomics, labor economics, labor sociology, subject area of labor studies, socioeconomic theory of labor and entrepreneurship.
I. THE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS AND ITS SYSTEM FEATURESToday in science and practice, there are different interpretations of social and labor relations. The most frequent variant is when social and labor relations are understood as mass relations arising among participants of production during their interaction concerning remuneration for work, its conditions, employment, forms and methods of conflict resolution [20]. A more concise definition is social and labor relations are relations in the sphere (concerning) of labor activity [14]. In the authors' opinion, complications at the level of conceptual framework are not required, however, the systematic approach to understanding is necessary. That is why it is advisable to determine social and labor relations as systems of socio-economic relations concerning elements of labor activity. At the same time, it is important to take into account that there are a lot of e...