Social Economy in Poland: Past and Present
Publisher: Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, Poland
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The problems which affect Polish society – including poverty, unemployment and social marginality – are not unique to Poland. Many European inhabitants, even in Europe’s wealthiest nations, are experiencing these problems. There are differences between countries, but these differences pertain to scale and intensity rather than to the nature of situations. Thus, the differences are based on quantity, not quality. Social exclusion, which is widely understood as a combination of the above mentioned problems, is a fundamental social issue (alongside the aging of the welfare society) facing Europe today.
It is impossible to ignore the fact that one of the side-effects of market economic forces, which we have been observing for some time but which has only recently been recognised as a social problem, is the exclusion from the labour market of people who do not fit into the equation of generating profit, accumulating capital and consumption patterns.
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