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The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class

Warunki życia gospodarstw domowych. Wyżywienie (PL)

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Introduction: The authors analyze aspects of social stratification proposed by Guy Standing with respect to key medical professions performing work in Polish publicly funded medical entities. Purpose: The aim of the paper was to assess how health care providers can be assigned to particular classes and if the precarity phenomenon occurs in their work environment. Materials and methods: An overview of statistical data was made on how health care providers performed their work in the years 20052014 and pay rates in 2014. Results: The vast majority of medical staff employed on the basis of civil law contracts were doctors. A smaller number of civil law contracts had been concluded by nurses and midwives. The number of nurses performing work on these kinds of contracts has increased considerably since 2005, and in 2014 there were 10.27% of them. A senior nurse earned PLN 2,600.00. This was very small in comparision with the average gross remuneration in 2014, which amounted to PLN 3,783.46. Unemployment existed in the population of nurses, and was 2.3–2.8%. This is called natural unemployment. Conclusions: It was found that precarity phenomena occur in the Polish health care system, although none of the professions met all the criteria attributed to the precariat.

Ewa Kleszczewska

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