Serviço social e consultoria empresarial: uma possibilidade de intervenção crítica?

Abstract

This thesis is to study systematically the research results developed in graduate school at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, about the new way of providing services for social workers, among others in the area of human resources, external to the boards of workers institutions, through companies that mediate these services, called "consulting". This denomination that differs from the original meaning of this activity. The design consulting adopted in this thesis assumes that this power has aimed to qualifying the work performed in order to expand the rights of workers. It comprises a level of activity with greater expertise, enabling formulate analyzes, opinions, statements about work situations. But without replacement professionals hired by other contractors or subcontractors as it has in the companies surveyed. The main objective is to verify the paths that the profession has been moving through the so-called "consultants" and identify whether these point to the consolidation of the professional politician ethical project by category or if they are helping him out of this project, given the working conditions and other elements in the social and occupational space of "consulting" company.