Bezrobocie a pomocniczość i solidarność społeczna

Abstract

Unemployment is a serious social problem, which affects hundreds of millions of people all over the world and millions of people in Poland. It threatens various classes and age groups, especially women and young people. Unemployment is wrong because it pushes workers to the margin of social life, sometimes to the depths of poverty and exposes them to moral dangers. It deprives man of basic rights, including the right to express himself through work, add to the wealth accumulated by all generations, support their families. Coping with unemployment is a task for everyone, especially for employers, trade unions, state authorities, and employees themselves. It requires joint effort in the spirit of mutual help and solidarity. To solve the problem of unemployment is a difficult task, which can be fulfilled on condition that all people of goodwill respond to the challenge in a sensible and responsible way. A way to temporarily help the unemployed might be to employ those who lost their jobs in other branches of economy or in public works. One must not forget, however, that the aim of work is to serve and cooperate with others, cultivate talent and skills and produce goods in the wide meaning of the word; goods which are really needed by others. The most essential task of the government is to create an atmosphere of moral responsibility for employment situation as well as the future of the unemployed and to form a positive attitude to work. The choice of the way to solve the problem of unemployment is conditioned by many factors and depends on the economic and political situation in a given countiy. There is, however, an urgent need for all nations to work jointly on eliminating unemployment.