This paper culminates the work undertaken in a larger study on income and labor force status commissioned by USAID in 1995. It explores populations at risk in Eastern Europe, and attempts to address three questions: Who are the poor? How much protection do these people receive from the social...

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...