Social Work in History: Contributions to an Internationalist Perspective

Abstract

The Em Pauta Journal: social theory and contemporary reality, in its issue no. 58, presents in the first section the thematic dossier Social work in history: contributions to an internationalist perspective, with the aim of socializing with readers reflections and investigations that address social work in the international division of labor, in the process of expansion and crisis of capital under the hegemony of finance today, in an internationalist perspective, recognizing the particularities in the socio-historical formations of countries in Nuestra América, Africa and Europe.

The dossier covered researchers, teachers, students with a view to highlighting social work in history, as a synthesis of the unity and diversity of the trajectory of this profession in different countries and different continents, in its different levels and forms of regulation. In this issue, we seek to expand the debate about research on history in social work in specific socio-historical contexts; the theoretical-methodological, ethical-political foundations and technical-operative dimensions of the work of social workers; their professional and academic profile; their working conditions and relations within the framework of the transformations brought about in this field by neoliberal policies; of union forms of organization; of education in social work at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including research and corresponding public education and science and technology policies. The purpose was to strengthen the historical-critical perspective in this area, the internationalist solidarity, and the exchange of experiences in academic production, professional training, and the work of social workers, in their inseparable relationship.