This article deals with transformations affecting social protection policies in the context of contemporary capitalist crisis and its developments in the field of social work. At the same time, it discusses the social workers' work revealing their condition as workers that sell their work force in exchange of a salary. The article also addresses the constraints they face because of the processes of intensification and precariousness of their work in the public and private spaces where they develop activities of elaboration, management and execution of social programs and services.
Worldwide crisis; Social protection policies; Intensification; Precariousness; Social worker; Salaried work
