MERCADO DE TRABALHO DAS/OS ASSISTENTES SOCIAIS FRENTE AO PROCESSO DE INTERIORIZAÇÃO DOS CURSOS DE SERVIÇO SOCIAL: uma análise das relações de trabalho das/os profissionais inseridas/os nos espaços sócio-ocupacionais de Sousa-PB

Abstract

The present dissertation presents the results of the research, which analyzed the job relations of the social workers inserted in socio-occupational spaces considering the context of insertion of undergraduate courses in Social Work in the city of Sousa – PB, considering that the context of expansion of the professional contingent, caused by the insertion of Social Work courses, especially in the online modality, points to the intensification of precariousness in what concerns work relations in the scope of the professional labor market. In order to understand the main objective of this study, we list as specific objectives: (i) Identify the ways in which social workers can be inserted in socio-occupational spaces: Social Assistance Reference Center I and II and Regional Hospital in the city of Sousa-PB; (ii) Get to know the work relations of social workers inserted in the spaces above mentioned; and (iii) Identify aspects which indicate variations regarding the precariousness of work relations of social workers, considering the professional training profile. In an attempt to unveil the structural and socio-historical determinants of such a process, we carried out, from the perspective of totality inscribed in Marx's dialectical historical materialism, a bibliographical and documentary study of the theoretical production relevant to the subject of study. In addition, we also carried out an empirical study whose participating subjects were the social workers who are inserted in the Reference Centers for Social Assistance - CRAS I and II and in the Regional Hospital of the city of Sousa, with data collection carried out through the application of a questionaire. The results allowed to identify the precariousness of the work relations of the social workers inserted in the referred socio-occupational spaces, which are expressed, fundamentally, in the low salaries; in employment relationships, predominantly temporary and without labor rights; in the forms of insertion in work spaces marked by the absence of public contracts, with indications and invitations mediated by the traffic of influence predominating; in the turnover of professionals, etc. In addition, by correlating the work relations with the professional training profile of the social workers participating in the research, we identified that professionals who graduated from online education, when entering the labor market only by invitation, are more subject to the processes of precariousness of labor relations. Finally, the results reveal that the internalization of Social Work courses, as it has been operated, collaborates with the intensification of the processes of precariousness in the work relations of social workers. On the one hand, because, by expanding the reserve assistance army under Iamamoto (2015b), it consequently intensifies the exploitation of workers. On the other hand, because, given primarily through private online teaching, which launches into the labor market a contingent of professionals with a streamlined, precarious and radically different education, guided by the 1996 ABEPSS Curriculum Guidelines, it submits these professionals, in a more energetic way, to precarious working relations.