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...

Amitai Etzioni has devoted a lifetime of study to the question of what makes a good society, and his work as the founder of the communitarian movement attests to his influence in moving the public debate away from a preoccupation with rights to a balance between individual rights and social...