In short a real antidote to the social divide

At the call of the social weeks of France, will be held from 20-22 next November, Villepinte, of the foundations of what could be called solidarity innovation. Measure then the wealth, the creativity which has manifested itself in France, since 20 years, in areas as diverse as housing, health, social integration, the development of the territories, international trade and, of course, access or retention in employment. It will include better the commonalities that link these new forms of voluntary solidarity: the ability to overcome the dichotomy if frequent between the economic and the social and create links beyond simple support. In short, a real antidote to the social divide. These same qualities also provide a response to the structural causes of the financial and economic crisis. Market capitalism doesn't have, to survive, a basis of mutual trust, responsibility, basement from which risk taking becomes unsustainable

The solidarity economy but also the social responsibility of the company are not, strictly speaking, an alternative model. Their virtue, which is essential in this time of indecision, is to show that it is possible to assume globalization and at the same time to maintain the social link. Can this message be contagious The past is not conducive to optimism, judging from the example in France structural unemployment and the lack of critical reactions to which it gave rise. It is not true indeed that the France is derived today less harm than the other. While the fall of the growth was less pronounced than in comparable European partners, predictable unemployment increased again the next year is comparable to the average. France-Germany contrast is striking: respectively 2 and 5 decline in activity in 2009, 3 points and 1.5 point increase in unemployment between 2008 and 2010. We continue to suffer from an excessive risk aversion to attach an additional active service. Not that employers do individually Malthusian how to behave, but because collectively, unlike the proclaimed adage, we do consider not really in men and women, be they employment or employment, pending a first wealth, to promote or preserve.

The real innovations that are "new unemployment solidarities" initiated by Jean-Baptiste de Foucauld, second chance school, launched by Edith Cresson, the companies of insertion in the wake of the companions of Emmaus, did not really school despite their proven success. See us in A notorious failure, in all public rehabilitation mechanisms, of the means of the personalized coaching; an almost systematic ignorance in the University and the school of the assessment of potentials and vocational guidance; recruiters who condemn almost always to remain in its original branch; restructuring plans on self-employed people who were never prepared to other trades; large companies, once jewels of the public sector, which externalisent at the expense of their own framework, the task of the conversion of the people. There is a real human waste in many ways unacceptable while, you know, the present crisis leads to redouble its efforts to ensure that the enforced inactivity and underemployment do not lead to a deterioration in the capacity of adaptation and change, especially in those that were initially little with experience or skills, in order to avoid restarting with a basement of unemployable assets. If such is really the urgency, the debates that we propose Eric Besson on national identity, or Ségolène Royal on the pill offered to high school are not in the category of distractions in the pascalien sense of the term

The question is to the knowledge of the facts to the action, without any wait another who can no longer, the State, but by cooperating with him. It requires no doubt lucidity, competence, and will, but especially much of spirit of fraternity. Social weeks there convieront especially the seniors, so that they meet them also the welcome call for voluntary civic service.