UNEMPLOYMENT - A PHENOMENON OF GLOBALIZATION?

Declining amount of live human labor, desirability of which is based on the biologically embedded share of everyday strain in human satisfaction, has become the main anthropological and social problem of today. The author therefore discusses the consequences of involuntary unemployment and the wider context of this phenomenon including its impacts on professional orientation of people. Based on her experience and research of the unemployment phenomenon in a country with transformed economy she describes how people cope with a loss of job and how they adapt to the new stressful situation. Furthermore, the author discusses the social and cultural context of unemployment in the current globalized world. According to her, the involuntary unemployment demands changes in the professional career consultancy services. The author also stresses the transformation of the content and sense of human labor, the decreasing need of the human labor and the change in the competence level among the population. She points out the consequences of the missing labor activity in adolescence and young adulthood (15 - 25 years old people). The last part of the study stresses how complex the problem of unemployment is and how important are the personality characteristics and competences of researchers who study it.