:"The problem in Goskomtrud's case is overcoming not so much its longstanding defense of traditional social policies, as its narrow preoccupation with wage policy to the virtual exclusion of everything else."<ref>Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka: Politics and people By Edward A. Hewett, Victor H. Winston. Brookings Institution Press, 1991. p. 53</ref>
The Committee which formally belonged to the [[Council of Ministers of(Soviet theUnion)|Council of USSRMinisters]] was created in [[1955]] by decree of the [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the [[USSR]] Mayon 24, May 1955. It was abolished in [[1991]], in the wake of the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>A short history of Goskomtrud was prepared by Russian archivists through the publication of an official guide to the state archives holding the committee's documents. See S.V. Mironenko (eds), Putevoditel'. Tom 3. ''Fondy Gosudarstvennogo arkhiva Rossiiskoi Federatsii po istorii SSSR'', Moscow, 1997.</ref> Throughout this time period, authorities had the name changed four times in the subsequent order:
The State Committee for Labour and Wages Problems of the Council of Ministers [[USSR]] (1955–1976)
