Capital Offensive and the New Determinations of Professional Labor

Authors

  • Mônica Maria Torres de Alencar UERJ - Rio de Janeiro - RJ
  • Sara Granemann UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro - RJ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1414-49802009000200005

Abstract

This article discusses the conditions in which the professional work of social workers is conducted. It is based on the “configurations of labor in capitalist society,” the counter reforms of the State and the (in)consequential alterations in the nature and orientation of social policies, conducted by the interests of capital throughout the world. Thus, the understanding of the impoverishment of the labor force of social workers takes on meaning in the analysis of the more general movement of class struggle and the needs of capital to organize to guarantee the realization of its primary function, the increase of profit.

Author Biographies

Mônica Maria Torres de Alencar, UERJ - Rio de Janeiro - RJ

possui graduação em Serviço Social pela Universidade Estadual do Ceará (1988) , mestrado em Serviço Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1994) e doutorado em Serviço Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2005) . Atualmente é Professor Adjunto da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Tem experiência na área de Serviço Social. Atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Desemprego, Política de Emprego, mundo do trabalho.

Sara Granemann, UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro - RJ

Doutorado em Serviço Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Professora da Faculdade de Serviço Social da Faculdade de Serviço Social da Universidade do Estado
do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Professora pesquisadora do Centro de Estudos
Octávio Ianni (CEOI).

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Published

2009-01-01

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2009): Dossiê: As configurações do trabalho na sociedade capitalista

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