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In the article, there are distinguished end analyzed characteristic phenomena end their development trends, which could be observed in the labour market in Poland between 1970 end 1980. These phenomena include: supply of labour, demand for labour, situation in labour market, end recruitment of labour. Moreover, some fee tore effecting evolution of these phenomena in the period under study are discussed as well. The performed analysis allowed to formulate several conclusions concerning among others labour employment offices end decision-asking powers of particular levels within the employment system. These conclusions might be of some assistance in the planned transformation in functioning of the labour market within the framework of the economic end institutional reform being introduced in the eighties.