Abstract:

The precariat is a new social category that occurs in all countries around the world. It is made up of people who undertake odd jobs and are employed under civil law contracts. In Poland, it is almost two million people, largely under 30 years of age. They constitute 25% of the economically active people in this country. The purpose of this article is to define the specificity of the Polish precariat and its expectations towards the social policy of the Polish state. Its utilitarian goal is to define a set of possible national governments and their agendas aimed at limiting the scale of this phenomenon.