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The aim of the present article is to discuss the change in the attitudes of Poles to work after 1989 and its influence on the situation of minorities on the Polish job market. The materialistic orientation of most Poles combined with a growing thread of unemployment result in an emergence of an economic intolerance and discrimination against strangers, members of such minorities as ethnic, gender, age, physical and mental disability, sexual orientation groups and even Polish re-emigrants form Russia (cf. the concept of the glass ceiling (women) and of the glass box (the Roma) who can compete for jobs. Consequently, despite the fact that the Polish legal system guarantee an equal right to work to all Polish citizens, it impossible to treat multiculturalism as an authentic value and an asset to build Puttman’s bridging capital, Bourdieu’s symbolic capital and the intangibles, which as new forms of human capital decide about the social welfare today.