A relação Trabalho-Assistência Social: reflexões a partir das ações de Inclusão Produtiva na Agência Nova Iguaçu de Oportunidades

Abstract

This master's thesis – presented to the Postgraduate Program in Social Service, at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) – intends to develop an analytical/exploratory study on the actions of Productive Inclusion, carried out at the Municipal Secretariat of Social Assistance (SEMAS) of Nova Iguaçu, where the “Agência Nova Iguaçu de Oportunidades” was located, an equipment created for the purpose of meeting the employment and income needs of users of the local social assistance policy. As a methodological task, the dissertation sought to identify productive inclusion in the academic debate on Social Work following the approval of the National Social Assistance Policy, PNAS. The results of the documentary analysis point to social indicators that allude to the national scenario of a world of precarious work made up of people registered in the Single Registry for social benefits and with an ethnic-racial profile made up of brown and black people. Therefore, productive inclusion is a response that meets economic and situational demands rather than necessarily the totality of workers' needs.