Abstract
The transformation of Poland’s political-economic system in the early 1990s fundamentally changed the ownership structure of the means of production in all domains of the economy. It also set in train economic and social processes that have provided a new basis for the Polish economy, and brought about changes in standards of living, and access to goods and services. Social polarization has been one of the basic expressions of these spatial-temporal variations. The author considers the factors responsible for the divergence in living standards, identifies the main tendencies inherent in polarization, and provides a synthesis of the mechanisms of increasing social differences in an economy undergoing transformation.
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