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The integration of disadvantaged, marginalised and disadvantaged sectors into the labour market represents one of the biggest challenges of today's society. This has been understood by the European Union in setting up the Community initiative HORIZON, which aims to support human promotion projects in this regard. These insertion companies have different legal forms, with cooperative forms being the most appropriate means of creating jobs because they offer training and employment opportunities, which do not exist in capital companies. Since 1991, Italian legislation has created 'social cooperatives' for this purpose, which we will analyse below. Faculty of Economics ; La inserción laboral de los sectores desfavorecidos –marginados y minusválidos- representa uno de los retos más grandes de la sociedad actual. Así lo ha entendido la Unión Europea al crear la iniciativa comunitaria HORIZON, tendiente a apoyar proyectos de promoción humana en este sentido. Estas empresas de inserción, tienen formas jurídicas diferentes, destacándose por su reconocido prestigio las formas cooperativas, como el medio más apropiado para crear empleos, pues ofrece oportunidades formativas y laborales, que no existen en las empresas de capital. La legislación italiana desde 1991, crea para este objeto las "cooperativas sociales", que analizaremos más adelante. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas

Recent resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement across the world is a reminder for HE institutions that we have a key role to play in enabling that our graduates are competent in creating and delivering effective social change. This needs for us to move on from creating awareness of social issues to equipping our students to create and deliver social action. Education and measurement are key in helping us achieve this.

1. Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in the Nordics : narratives emerging from social movements and welfare dynamics / Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Malin Gawell, and Roger Spear -- 2. Social entrepreneurship : demolition of the welfare state or an arena for solidarity? / Linda Lundgaard Andersen and Lars Hulgaard -- 3. Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises : chameleons through times and values / Malin Gawell -- 4. Evolution of the social enterprise concept in Finland / Harri Kostilainen and Pekka Pottiniemi -- 5. Social enterprise as a contested terrain for definitions and practice : the case of Norway / Hans Abraham Hauge and Tora Mathea Wasvik -- 6. Practicing entrepreneuring and citizenship : social venturing as a learning context for university students / Bengt Johannisson -- 7. Employees as social intrapreneurs : active employee participation in social innovation / Catharina Juul Kristensen -- 8. The added value of social entrepreneurship in contemporary social design in Norway / Brita Fladvad Nielsen and Jonas Asheim -- 9. Social entrepreneurship : between Odysseus' scar and Abraham's sacrifice / Daniel Ericsson -- 10. Social entrepreneurship as collaborative processes in rural Sweden / Yvonne von Friedrichs and Anders Lundstrom -- 11. Microfinance as a case study of social entrepreneurship in Norway / Unni Beate Sekkesoeter -- 12. Social change through temporary short-term interventions : the role of legitimacy in organizing social innovation / Anders Edvik and Fredrik Bjork -- 13. Entrepreneurship invited into the (social) welfare arena / Malin Gawell, Elisabeth Sundin, and Malin Tillmar -- 14. Narratives of social enterprises : its construction, contradictions and implications in the Swedish debate / Ulrika Levander -- 15. Democratic innovations : exploring synergies between three key post-NPM concepts in public sector reforms / Victor Pestoff.

In this article, we give a general presentation of what we mean by social intervention from the political-ideological, theoretical-methodological and epistemological perspective that we have referred to in a recent work as 'emancipatory social work'. First, we briefly refer to the meaning of emancipation. Second, we discuss a way of thinking about and doing social work that we call 'emancipatory social work', an approach practised from Argentina through Latin America to the Caribbean as a response to the challenges involved in the changing times of 'Our America', as the Cuban poet Jose Martí called the great Latin American nation. In the third part, we analyse the main features of social intervention, conceived as a form of social work, and the implications that these have for training and the political-professional project.

In complex systems, disorder and order are interrelated, so that disorder can be an inevitable consequence of ordering. Often this disorder can be disruptive, but sometimes it can be beneficial. Different social groups will argue over what they consider to be disordered, so that naming of something as 'disorder' is often a political action. However, although people may not agree on what disorder is, almost everyone agrees that it is bad. This primarily theoretical sketch explores the inevitability of disorder arising from ordering systems and argues that a representative democracy has to tolerate disorder so as to function.

In this essay, I review developments in the ongoing debate about the causal connections between poverty, personal behaviour and social inequality. I also discuss the normative issues that arise in defining poverty and in deciding what role redistributive social policies ought to play in its prevention and relief.I go on to compare the behavioural explanations of the causes of poverty that are normatively associated with theories of economic market liberalism and the structural explanations that are grounded in theories of socialism and other more pluralist forms of social-democratic collectivism.I conclude that these two unitary ideologies of individualism and collectivism are reaching the end of their useful lives as exclusive guides in shaping the ends and means of social policies. In democratic societies, compromises have to be made between radically different views about what constitutes an equitable distribution of wealth and income, and what kind of balance should be struck between the claims of freedom and welfare. Viable compromises on these divisive issues can only be reached in the mixed economies of democratic pluralist societies.

This themed section discusses the conceptual development and related empirical applications of social innovation (SI), a concept acquiring a prominent position in both academia and the world of policy. When SI started being used in the early 1990s relatively few social scientists were familiar with it, mainly those interested in urban policy. Less than two decades later, not only is SI at the heart of the largest public research funding programme in Europe (Horizon 2020), it is also constantly referred to in the discourses of senior level policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic.

A perennial quest for justice is the road toward progress. Continued inequality and injustice have demeaned the ethos of our civilization. A broken society manifestly reminds us about the perils of a vanishing social contract (SC). It appears to be a romantic fallacy to achieve global wellbeing in the context of contemporary social development (SD). It is argued that the fissures of "social contract" warrant the examination of society's evolutionary trajectories of development.