Neoliberal counter-reform and its interferences for the professional job execution of social work in brazilian social security

Particularities of Gerência Executiva/GEX-Belém/Pará

Abstract

This article sought to problematize and analyze neoliberal counterreforms in Brazil and their inflections for the professional work of social workers who work in social security, in particular, at GEX/Belém-Pará. It was based on the partial results of an empirical research on the work and health of these professionals working in social security, based on a qualitative approach. The data collection instruments were questionnaires and individual interviews with 9 of the 16 social workers who work in that management. In the light of Marxist theory and the dialectical historical materialist method, the data obtained were analyzed, allowing the observation that the neoliberal counter-reforms since the 1970s have been strategies to face the crisis of contemporary capitalism, causing profound changes in the politics of social security, with inflections for the professional work of the social worker, in general and, in particular, at GEXBelém/Pará. The inflections of these counter-reforms for the professional work of these professionals at – GEX/Belém-Pará are manifested both in terms of form with the introduction of new technologies (INSS Digital), accelerating the demand for immediate responses, etc., in terms of content, as the State reduces the budget for social security policy and promotes, in social security, private insurance that favors the profits of international bankers, with the result that the demands for Social Work in this space increase. socio-copational, leading to the intensification of work caused by the adoption of new forms of workforce management, such as polyvalence and goal management.