A well-established transdisciplinary literature has identified the early 1970s as a periodising moment for the labour history and the history of the welfare state. The end of the Bretton Woods system and, mostly, the first energy crisis of 1973 have been generally regarded as the beginning of a major break with social policy as it was conceived during the so-called “Golden Age” of capitalism in Western Europe. Ideas and structural macro-processes gradually reshaped cultural paradigms, policies, and socio-economic relations….

We can think of games as artifacts, texts, or processes that we take part in: history can therefore be narrativized, reinterpreted, transmitted through games but, most importantly, it can become through games a playground. For Gregory Bateson, anthropologist, what is learned through games is not merely a system of rules but the coexistence of roles, or rather models of behavior: it is precisely by providing a shift of perspectives that games allow us to step into different subjectivities, identifying with others. This may prove useful for educational …