Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JAQUELINE LIMA DA SILVA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JAQUELINE LIMA DA SILVA
DATE: 22/10/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: remoto - Google Meet
TITLE:

The work of the social worker as a form of salaried work: an analysis based on the critique of Political Economy

KEY WORDS:

Social work; salaried work; unproductive work; public service.

PAGES: 116
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Serviço Social
SUMMARY:

The text presented for the purpose of the thesis qualification exam deals with the preliminary results of the research on "The work of the social worker as a form of salaried work: an analysis based on the critique of Political Economy", in progress in the Doctorate of Postgraduate Program in Social Work (PPGSS-UFAL). The ongoing investigation intends to respond to the following research problem: How is the social worker's salaried work, considered, in general, as a form of unproductive work, characterized, and what are the trends that present themselves in relation to the productivist logic in state services and the interrelation that whether it settles between productive and unproductive forms of work? In this sense, the objective of the research is to analyze the configuration of the work of the social worker as a specifically capitalist form of work, considering that, as a salaried worker, the social worker has as a social function the provision of services that constitute, essentially, as a form of unproductive work, as necessary and integral activities in the production and reproduction process of capital. The research methodology consists of bibliographic and documentary studies. The theoretical frameworks express a critical historical understanding of social reality, based on Marxian theory. The empirical data refer to the particularities of the expansion of the Brazilian public service labor market within the scope of the Rede Federal de Educação Profissional, Científica e Tecnológica (Federal Network of Professional Education), in order to demonstrate how the form of salaried work of social workers is configured. The organizational structure of this study contains: an introduction, which presents the state of the art and the delimitation of the thesis object, and two more sections that deal, respectively, with wage labor in capitalism, its particularities in the production of material goods and in the provision of services and an analysis of unproductive salaried work in the Brazilian public service, and the particularities of Social Work in the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education and the conclusions. Our analytical hypothesis is that, as the social worker is, fundamentally, an unproductive worker, considered as a necessary cost for the capitalist mode of production, there are trends that point to a process of devaluation of the workforce in the context of public and private services, that occur through changes in the organizational structure of work and that allow both the maintenance of unproductive work and the introduction of mechanisms that favor, to some extent, the use of forms of productive work, mediated by the commodification of state services, with the purpose reducing the costs generated by the form of unproductive work. In this context, the initial conclusions point out that the work of the social worker as a form of paid work is linked to the emergence of the profession that is already born inserted in a wage-earning relationship, in monopoly capitalism. We believe that in order to understand the fundamentals of the social worker's work, it is necessary to situate him in this relationship as an inherent part of the capitalist social form, analyzing him from the theory of value in Marx. Therefore, we consider that the content of the work is distinct from the content of Social Work. For, while work has the function of producing material goods, Social Work has the function of providing services, whose content is not material. But both work and Social Work are useful for the process of production and reproduction of capital.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - MOEMA AMÉLIA SERPA LOPES DE SOUZA - UEPB
Externo à Instituição - RICARDO LARA - UFSC
Externo à Instituição - ALBANI DE BARROS
Interna - 1121107 - MARIA NORMA ALCANTARA BRANDAO DE HOLANDA
Interna - 1119849 - MARIA VIRGINIA BORGES AMARAL
Interna - 1121039 - REIVAN MARINHO DE SOUZA CARNEIRO