“…The aim is to create new social and labour relations that do not reproduce existing inequalities but aim at bringing about political change (Coraggio, 2011) and are aligned, in this sense, with the above‐mentioned transformative vocation. The European literature on solidarity economy, which is rooted in associativism and is not far removed from the Latin American approach, highlights the need to overcome the dualism of state and market, based on the Polanyian plurality of economic principles (Laville, 2004; Laville & Salmon, 2016). According to Utting (2015), solidarity economy organisations are characterised by three main features: (1) they have explicit economic and social (and often environmental) objectives; (2) they involve varying degrees and forms of cooperative, associative and solidarity relations between workers, producers, and consumers; and (3) they practise workplace democracy and self‐management.…”