O trabalho das/os assistentes sociais na pandemia de Covid-19: um estudo exploratório a partir de publicações do Conselho Federal de Serviço Social no período de 2020 a 2021

Abstract

This dissertation exposes critical reflections on the work of Social Workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, through publications prepared by the Federal Council of Social Service (CFESS) during the years 2020 and 2021.This study is justified by the need to identify and recognize the objective and subjective impacts caused to this professional category. Its general objective focuses on the measurement of the data contained in the CFESS documents, considering the implications of the pandemic scenario for the exercise of the profession. Thus, the method used was the historical-dialectical Marxism, since it allows the knowledge of the real in its concrete totality. The methodological path, of a qualitative nature, was based on a bibliographic and documental research. In the first moment, a study was made of the theoretical references that analytically approach the capitalist production mode and its inferences for the Brazilian Social Service. In sequence, the documentary research analyzed the following materials: CFESS Manifesta, Legal Opinion nº05/2020-E and Our Mourning, Our Struggle, taking as reference the period in which there was greater expressiveness of the societal effects for the working class.The variables analyzed were: work modalities adopted; relationship with the employing institutions/managers; demands presented to the Social Service; relationship with the public attended; health conditions and records of the deaths of Social Workers due to Covid-19. Thus, the analyses allowed us to conclude that the pandemic experienced recently intensified the exploitation of Social Workers and, consequently, the precariousness of their living and working conditions. Furthermore, they signaled the importance of investing in strengthening ethical-political resistance and in collective articulations with other workers.