Unemployment and its Impact on Individuals

The object of the thesis is to explain one of the phenomena of the Czech Republic{\crq}s modern history: unemployment, an issue with which the whole globalized society of the present has to cope. The thesis aims to draw attention to the impact of unemployment on an individual{\crq}s life, trying to outline the significance of unemployment in our lives and find out how much importance we attach to work and what losing a job means to us.The thesis gives a definition of unemployment, presents its evolution and types and explains national unemployment policy and ways of reducing unemployment. It studies the relations between unemployment and an individual{\crq}s health and deals with the importance of work for people. The thesis concerns unemployment and its social context. It looks at the issues of a loss of social status, a new social role of the unemployed person, his/her lifestyle and socially pathological phenomena occurring as a result of unemployment. In the end, the thesis offers recommendations to people who have lost their jobs