O Serviço Social brasileiro na contracorrente dos movimentos sociais: problematizações acerca da institucionalização da profissão no Brasil

Abstract

In this academic study, we pursue to point the relation between Brazilian Social Work and the working class social movements and contest in Brazil. In the path of professional practice institutionalization, between the end of the 30’s and the 50’s. With the use of literature review as methodological resource, we present a systematization from the knowledge already existent, under which historical, socio-political, and professional conditions the Brazilian social work has related directly and indirectly, with the organization, mobilization and claim process of the subaltern classes in that period. Therefore, we will briefly explain the theoretical assumptions that point historically the social movements and struggle from the working class as constituents and constitutive of the political determination of the social question in the capitalism. And we will address the discussion about political determination and social question expressions in the Brazilian reality, through a political and historical rescue from class struggle pattern in the country, in which we highlight the social-political potentiality of “Comitês Populares Democráticos”, created between 1945-1947 under PCB influence. We also highlight forms of professional performances in socio-occupational spaces at that time. With emphasis on “Fundação Leão XIII” as a great social assistance that demands social workers. We characterize the social work intervention against the social movements, from a combat and dispute against progressive and democratic social forces perspective. Lastly, against the conservative Direction of the profession in this period, we point out some provocations for a future debate on a progressive change in the relationship of segments of Social Work with social movements and organizational process of the popular strata.