Under the combined effect of globalisation, increasing labour flexibility-mobility and rapid technological and organisational change, vocational identities rooted in the tradition of the "Fordist economy" have concomitantly undergone important structural changes during the last decades. Through some sort of "decomposition" and "re- composition" process, they have developed into two basic categories of work related identities. The first category includes the "decomposition" of the traditional identities into a "cluster" of "weak identities", such as "categorical identity", "blocked identity", "refuge-retreat identity" and "exclusion identity". As for the second category of professional identities, it is represented by the emergence of more or less a "new generation" of "flexible identities" (such as the "negotiator-entrepreneurial identity" and the "affinity-network-mobility" type of identity) characterised by their relatively high level of interactivity with the new forms of work organisation combined with their ability to adapt and internalise rapidly the requirements of change. As observed by researchers in the domain such as (Sainsaulieu 1977, 1996, 1998), Dubar (1994, 2000a, 2000b), Sennett (1998) and Dif (2001). This overall tendency was also confirmed by the results of a recent European project on "vocational identity, flexibility and mobility in the European labour market (FAME: 2000-2003)".In this context, the proposed paper is based on the extension of FAME investigation to the emerging associative socio-solidarity based sector in France (in favour of disadvantaged individuals by the declining traditional vocational identities) with reference to the example of the socio- health care provision for vulnerable and people. It is a two-stage qualitative investigation within a representative sample of both employers and their employees with the basic aim of identifying the nature and the dynamics of the emerging vocational identities in the sector investigated (including their connection with the overall transformation tendency of vocational identities). The paper is divided into four basic sections. The first one is an overview of the overall observed development and transformation of vocational identities during the last decades and their implications for learning, inclusion and socio-professional promotion. The second section introduces the basic characteristics and role of the (concomitantly) emerging solidarity-based sector (with reference to the example to the sub-sector investigated) in favour of those (disadvantaged) individuals left behind by the train of change. The third section will be an examination of the main findings of the investigation (on the dynamics of vocational identity formation and development) within this emerging sector with special reference to the example of the investigated socio-healthcare sub-sector. The last section of the paper will be devoted to drawing some concluding remarks, conclusion and policy recommendations.References:Dif, M., (2001): "On the dynamics of identity formation and development in active citizenship", in: M. Schermmann and M. Bron Jr. (eds.), Adult Education and Democratic Citizenship IV, Impuls Publisher, Krakow, pp. 80-90.Dubar, C. (1994) : "Le sens du travail - Les quatre formes d'appartenance professionnelle", in Sciences Humaines, 37, mars, pp. 22- 25Dubar, C., (2000a) : "La socialisation: Construction des identités sociales et professionnelles, Armand Colin, Paris (3rd edition).Dubar, C., (2000b) : "La crise des identités: L'interprétation d'une mutation", Presses Universitaire de France, 2ème Edition corrigée, Paris.FAME Consortium (2004): "Work Identities in Europe", in Career Development international", (Guest Ed.: S. Kirpal), Volume 9, Number 3.FAME Consortium (2003): "Project papers: Work-Related identities in Europe - How personnel Management and HR Policies Shape Workers Identities", ITB Working papers, N 46, University of Bremen.FAME Consortium (2001): "Project Papers: Vocational Identity, Flexibility and Mobility in the European Labour Market (FAME"), (Ed. G. Laske), ITB Working Paper Series No. 27, University of Bremen.Sainsaulieu, R., (1996) : "L'identité au travail: les effets culturels de l'organisation", Presse de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (3rd ed., 1st ed. 1977), Paris.Sainsaulieu, R., (1998) : "La construction des identités au travail", in Sciences Humaines - Hors Série, 20 (mars/avril), pp. 40-43.