Les entreprises d'insertion entre mission sociale, activité économique et relation avec le pouvoir public

Social insertion companies present a mixed nature and double function: social integration and professional training on the one hand, and a real economic activity on the other. This is essential to help young and vulnerable people reducing the negative impacts of the crisis on employment. These work integration social enterprises support young people and others having important socioeconomic difficulties, and needing a strong support and training to integrate the labour market. Such vulnerable persons are even more at risk during a crisis and in the aftermath of such a crisis, when public resources are reduced (employment insurance for example), and when governments try to include such groups in activation measures, while they are not necessarily ready to integrate the labour market. We hypothesize that with such a local action aiming at reducing labour market exclusion, these organizations can represent an important solution, amongst others, and an “adequate” process of activation as a way out of the crisis for a particularly vulnerable group.