ABSTRACT
The social economy and the inclusion process, especially within organisations promoting inclusion through economic activity or through work, seem to go naturally together. Most of these organisations are in fact part of the social economy; they are naturally linked problematically where the social economy is seeking to develop alternative social models for the most deprived as a way of helping their social integration. The social economy brings to bear fundamental mechanisms, different from conventional standards, and makes it possible to find a place in the commercial economy for deprived people. Like light, the social and political integration is diffracted into many forms of personal inclusion where people must enter into structures or groups temporarily and have differentiated activities. Some of these still have little legitimacy, e.g. socially useful activities. From socialisation in productive structures for inclusion through economic activity, there has emerged the aim of producing 'individualised paths to inclusion' through community-based management is attentive to the need for personal autonomy.
