POLÍTICAS SOCIALES ENTRE LUCHAS Y RESISTENCIA EN EL CONTEXTO DE CRISIS DE CAPITAL

Abstract

The article analyzes social policies amid the crisis of capital, considering productive restructuring, new trends in work, and their impacts on the precariousness of working class living, health, and work conditions. It focuses on the social security
crisis and the work of social workers at the National Social Security Institute – INSS, highlighting the attack on the social rights of the working class. It discusses worker health after the covid-19 pandemic, with an emphasis on health promotion from the territory, identifying situations of lack of protection, limits, and exhaustion. It questions the discourse of
individualized, medicalizing, and blaming self-care of workers. It also addresses the precarization in the Social Assistance Policy, the importance of Social Assistance Surveillance as a function of the Unified Social Assistance System – SUAS, in the production of knowledge about the reality of territories and in social protection work. Finally, it discusses Housing Policy in the city of São Paulo, identifying changes that have occurred with outsourcing in the execution of programs and the impact on housing social work.