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The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has widened the risk of social exclusion, from the structural groups, like disabled people and formerly convicted people, to other groups, like the young, unemployed, low skilled workers and immigrants, in terms of income, poverty, health, unemployment, transition between occupational statuses, participation, leading to a wide

What social exclusion means -- Social exclusion -- Five building blocks for tackling exclusion -- Working with socially excluded families -- Reversing the exclusion of young people -- Working with socially excluded adults -- Working with disadvantaged neighbourhoods -- Social work and social exclusion in rural areas -- Racism and social exclusion -- Social exclusion and the learning organisation

The opening words of the 1999 report of the government's Social Exclusion Unit, Bringing Britain Together announced that it met its remit to report to the Prime Minister on how to: "develop integrated & sustainable approaches to the problems of the worst housing estates, including crime, drugs, unemployment, community breakdown, & bad schools etc." In other words, the Social Exclusion Unit was instructed to take a problem-solving approach to the issue. This approach meant that the development of an inclusive society would be understood implicitly in terms of dealing with those areas that are perceived as problems. This seems to suggest that social exclusion "just happens" to people who "suffer from" a collection of problems. The agent or agents of this exclusion are rendered invisible by the very linguistic structure of the definition. This paper argues that it is vital to envisage the agents & victims of exclusion & to describe it in terms of the relationship of face to face. A critique drawing upon the insights of Emmanuel Levinas would refuse to allow us to reduce the otherness of the socially excluded to a project defined in the terms of those who exercise power in social relations. Nor would it allow a definition of social exclusion in terms of it being either "their" problem or the consequence of some impersonal force. A theological critique might lead us to argue that the whole project of problem solving when applied to persons is in & of itself highly suspect. Thus the paper concludes by considering what shape might develop from the bringing of insights from philosophical & theological discourses to this perception of social exclusion. It seeks to argue for a radical passivity before the face of the Other (that is in this case those who live in urban housing estates) arguing that those who engage with social exclusion, the "name" that has been given to this face, are first summoned by the Other to a relationship of total responsibility that rejects the reductionist project of the controlling "I.". Adapted from the source document.

Explains that the following articles provide the opportunity to look at how the concept of social exclusion develops when it is approached sociologically. Outlines the content and briefly comments on each of their themes.