Resew journal puts on display the status-quo, in which the welfare state—blinded by the race to privatisation and deregulation—is paradoxically favouring the expansion of a new emerging class, the precariat.
Focusing the discourse on OECD countries, each issue tackles a particular area of intervention of welfare policies and present two crucial adversities currently faced by numerous nations. For each, a series of paired articles progresses through a narrative in which some of their major symptoms are highlighted, some of their consequences brought up and, at last, some relevant measures that have been taken in response—adopted by both the public or private sector and the civil sector—took under review, emphasising how people are forming a strong and collective identity, filling the gaps the welfare state often fails to recognise.