Social workers to beyond of social work?

• Autor(a) principal: Simões, Pedro
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Política & Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2019v18n43p288

This paper discuss the uso of the denomination “social workers” to mean the workers at social assistance, to beyond those who were concluded the course of Social Work. The text shows that the fragility of structure of social work, as a profession, in Brazil and in other international experiences, does that activity a occupation without defined boundaries. Thereby, there is a use by different social agents, in labour market, of the nomenclature “social workers”. The paper demonstrate, using data from Censo 2010 that, from the Occupational Brazilian Classification (CBO) is possible identify “social workers” with the most different profiles, as techniques as with high education, all of them using the same occupational reference.