Open AccessMore About the 80th Anniversary of Social Services: social rights in times of democratic breakdown / Ainda sobre os 80 anos do Serviço Social: direitos sociais em tempos de ruptura democrática
Author(s) -
Beatriz Augusto de Paiva,
Jaime Hillesheim
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
textos and contextos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1677-9509
DOI - 10.15448/1677-9509.2016.2.25312
Subject(s) - social rights , democracy , capitalism , poverty , unemployment , political science , politics , sociology , reactionary , political economy , development economics , economics , law , economic growth
This article focuses on the current process that is reshaping the cycle of democratic breakdown in Brazil, triggered by the reactionary/conservative forces of August 2016. The working classes are experiencing the harsh consequences of the global economic crisis combined with the political dispute arising from illegitimate governance: massive unemployment, wage restraint, loss of historic labor rights and recently gained social guarantees; in short, worsening poverty against a historic backdrop of overexploitation and dependency. Based on these vectors of analysis, this article reflects on the contradictions that govern social rights and social policy on the periphery of capitalism, centering on variations in social rights within neodevelopmentalist framework and its breakdown, as well as the contemporary dilemmas faced by social services in the complex affirmation/regression of social rights.