abstract: The contemporary social and philosophical discourse is seen in the context of the continuation of European philosophy tradition to link labour with activity of a human as a generic subject or collective subjects of another type.The sphere of labour in this case serves as a necessary means of individual's real situation diagnostics considering industrial relations of a certain historical epoch.The phenomenon of "new unemployment", which emerged in the 1980s and deepened during the crisis of 2008-
journal: Visnyk of the Lviv University