This study provides new answers to one of the most perplexing questions facing historians of labor and of the South: why were workers so resistant to the efforts of unions and liberals to reform the region? Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf add evangelical Protestantism to the narrative of how...

Introduction -- 1. The ethic of solidarity from 1980 to 1989 -- 2. The eclipse of solidarity after 1989 -- 3. Poverty in Poland after 1989 : empirical signs of the failure of the revolution -- 4. Recovering and applying an ethic of solidarity to Polish poverty -- 5. Freedom and participation as...