On unemployment

The elaboration considers one of the immanent features of the capitalist economy, i.e. incomplete employment, that is, unemployment. The author, in accordance with the views of Karl Marx, thinks there is no capitalist way of production without the existence of unemployment, the so-called reserve labour army. After reminding the different types of unemployment and its theories, and also the category of the organic composition of capital, the author comes to the conclusion that the trends and types of technical progress by its distinctly anti-employment tendency lead to the intensification of the phenomenon of unemployment. An attempt at a statistical theory of formulation of the category of organic composition of capital was also presented. In the final parts of the elaboration some ways of combating unemployment were discussed, essential in the present situation of the economy of Poland. These are: so-called ecological agriculture the question of pensions and sick pensions shortening of the work time.