The article considers the problems of interaction between science, rule-making and law enforcement in private law using the example of labor law. The research was carried out on the basis of a sociological survey of dissertational studies from 1950 to 2017. The analysis made it possible to identify general patterns and draw the attention of researchers to the need to study the fundamental constructions of labor law, to formulate several proposals on the directions of scientific research in labor law. It is substantiated that the rules of conduct of participants in joint labor are developed primarily in the production team, that is, at the local level. Labor behavior is not an accidental unification and state mediation of rules, but their system, conditioned by the technological process adopted in the organization. The necessity of disclosing the technological paradigm of labor law is substantiated, since such an approach to the study of the legal aspect of social and labor relations will make it possible to identify the objective grounds for improving labor legislation, scientifically substantiated directions for modification, changes in the norms of labor law, and, most importantly, their systems. In order to advance in the analysis of the system and the structure of labor law, it is necessary to adopt and use model building as a tool for research. Many system-forming factors can be formulated, and just as many models of the system under investigation can be constructed. The construction and analysis of any new model of the social phenomenon under study, including the legal one, will be a definite contribution to its study, will help to find out new characteristics that were previously unknown to science. So, the use of the technological paradigm of labor law can be another step in the study of the content of its system and structure. The classification proposed in the article made it possible to conclude that the universally recognized system of the labor law of Russia does not contain an institution that provides the employer with the objectification of the products produced in the organization. In the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, it is expedient to fill the gap by adding Section XIV - "Ensuring the Quality of Labor" - to Part 5. Labor law study is considered as a social system, which includes a number of elements. It can be represented in the form of the following scheme (sequence): 1. Science. 2. Proposed practical recommendations for the implementation of the results of the research carried out. 3. Development of procedures, forms of implementation of the research, i.e. implementation of its results. 4. Identification of the subjects the implementation of the results is intended for. Preparation by authors of a scientific development of the corresponding addresses, letters, requests etc. 5. Activities to implement scientific developments, that is, the implementation of a certain technology for the application of the received (new) scientific knowledge.
