Experience of the Czech Population with the Labour Market Cover Image

Zkušenost české populace s trhem práce
Experience of the Czech Population with the Labour Market

Author(s): Petr Mareš
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Sociologický ústav - Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Labour market; unemployment; perception; social change; social right

Summary/Abstract: Experience of the Czech Population with the Labour Market. As a result of social change the labour market has emerged in the Czech republic. The process of its establishing is accompanied with the growing unemployment rate now. Some social categories, which were lifted on the primary labour market up through the redistribution of sources by socialist state before. Nowadays they are moving down on the secondary labour market again. Their members have already became aware that their downward in the secondary labour market does not represent only a transitional costs necessary for their future life in affluence. Their perception of the decline of their own social position as a definitive one weakens legitimacy of the market for them. Anomie is growing up among them. A lot of people say today: ”average men are getting worse now - compared it with the situation before 1989”. The most of people judge: ”The social change has enlarged our civil right, it has not touched our political right but it limited our social right.”

  • Issue Year: 1999
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 481-488
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Czech