The problem of raising the productivity of social labor has always been key. However, in the conditions of developed socialism, when the material and technical basis of communism is being created, the task of accelerating the growth rate of labor productivity has acquired special significance and new content. During the period of the scientific and technological revolution, with the increased opportunities of the national economy and a significant rise in the welfare of working people, high rates of growth of labor productivity are envisaged in all branches of material production.