Southern social workers’ pension strategies regarding social work collapse

Abstract

This paper reports the results of a study that aimed at identifying if and how were the strategies adopted by pension Social Workers in the South of Brazil to face the destructuring of Social Work due to societal transformations in the work field and of the Brazilian Pension Policy in the decades of 1990-2000. The study makes considerations regarding these transformations, their impacts on the social practice of the pension Social Worker guided by the Theoretical-Methodological Matrix perspective of the Social Worker in Social Security/1994, of the professional actions of the Social Workers and of the struggle in the category at the national level and in southern Brazil. As a result, we identified struggling and resistance strategies of the southern social security workers towards the attempt to mischaracterize the profession in the interior of INSS, with articulations of the professional category with representative entities of the profession, unions, among other subjects not only taking place regionally, but nationally.