Social Work in Spainhistoric contexts, singularities and current challenges

  1. Matos-Silveira, Rosana
Revue:
Revista Katálysis

ISSN: 1982-0259

Année de publication: 2013

Volumen: 16

Número: 1

Pages: 110-118

Type: Article

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Résumé

This article analyzes the historic nature and construction of the so-called welfare state in Spain, as well as the particularities of the process of construction and consolidation of Social Work as a profession and discipline. It presents the important role of the profession in the implementation, organization and consolidation of the public social services network with the predominance of the professional bureaucratic-administrative model. It concludes by indicating the main current challenges to Social Work in a context of a strong crisis in the capitalist economic model and the radicalization of the social question.