On the political organization of Social Service: the critical turn in the context of bourgeois autocracy

Abstract

The article highlights key developments in the research project titled "The Political Organization of the Social Work Professional Category in Brazil and the Critical Turn in the Entities." Our working hypothesis is that the "critical turn" and the establishment of what we refer to as the Ethical-Political-Professional Project were made possible by the organizational efforts of the professional category, particularly in the struggle for ethical-political leadership within Brazilian Social Work organizations. This process, which began in the 1960s and 1970s, evolved concurrently among vanguards connected to universities and the labor movement. We aim to illustrate how this process has influenced the national entities, which view their alignment with social struggles as essential for advancing the democratization of Brazilian society through various forms of worker organization.