This volume looks at the three dimensions of social exclusion: economic, social and political. Exclusion is analyzed as a new approach to such issues as the 'new' poverty, precariousness, long-term unemployment, social polarization and lack of citizenship. The book shows how relational and...

Introduction: informal economy, vulnerabilities, and popular security-enhancing practices / Isabelle Hillenkamp, Frédéric Lapeyre, and Andreia Lemaître -- Part I. A plurality of socio-economic logics: new Polanyian approaches to informality and vulnerability. Popular cooperatives and local...