Coordinator: Profª Silene de Moraes Freire

Description: The relation between work and the "social question" is central, since it is the constitutive work of the social being and, therefore, the core of the main issues affecting today's society. In this sense, the apprehension and deepening of the theme of work requires the consideration of issues that relate the local and the global, the singular and the general, the conjunctural and the structural, such as: unemployment, poverty, violence, social policies, citizenship, democracy, among others. In relation to Social Work, the social question is its object of study and, in this sense, it becomes essential the understanding of the processes that accentuate the social inequalities and their effects on the forms of reproduction of the working class. Created in 1999, the GP in Social Work of Uerj elects as areas of concentration significant and relevant topics for the country and the State of Rio de Janeiro: work and social policy, relating the latter theme to the forms of facing the expressions of the social question. Today the GP Social Work has a national and international insertion consolidated. The project "work and social question" consists of analyzing the transformations in the work world, with emphasis on institutional reformulations that impact on the refractions of the social issue and affect institutional social promotion and control policies. This impact has direct repercussions on the work of social workers, due to their efforts to achieve social rights. this proposal seeks to encourage the exchange of knowledge on labor and social issues between European countries (University of Granada and Universidad de the Balearic Islands (UIB), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona - Spain; Instituto Superior Miguel Torga / Coimbra; Institute of Contemporary History - Lisbon, Center for Recherches et d'étudessociologiques et Politiques de Paris (CRESPPA), CNRS - Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis; Center d'Enseignement, Documentation et de Recherches pour les Etudes Féministes, in France) and Latin America (National University of La Plata and National University of Rosario), aiming at deepening reflection and stimulating debate in order to broaden the international academic production in a critical and collective perspective in the social sciences, capable of promoting joint productions in this area concentration. Also with the Pacte-Université Grenoble-alpes - Canada exchange relations are established.