%0 Journal Article %T The world of values of the unemployed %A Furmanek, Waldemar %J Homo et Societas %V 2022 %R 10.4467/25436104HS.22.003.17346 %N Issue 7/2022 %P 49-79 %K work, unemployment, values, freedom, dignity, responsibility %@ 2543-6104 %D 2023 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/homo-et-societas/article/swiat-wartosci-osob-bezrobotnych %X Unemployment as a process in the subjective dimension is associated with changes in human existence. In the study I indicate that the most important negative effect of unemployment is the destruction of the value space of the unemployed. Dignity, freedom and responsibility are particularly at risk. Threats also concern social values that are realized in human work.