Publisher's Synopsis
The aim of this paper was to understand the movement built up within the professional category to reject conservative forms of social work with families living in different urban territories considered precarious and popular, such as slums, allotments and peripheral neighbourhoods, housing estates, among others, based on the so-called intention to break away from Social Work, which also began to dispute the orientation of social work in this area. A documentary survey was therefore carried out of the main works and articles in the journal "Serviço Social e Sociedade" from 1940 to 2014. From this locus of analysis, it was possible to understand the articulation between the new and old socio-historical determinations of the urban, labour, the state, social policies, social classes and the mutations in the field of socio-institutional requirements for social work in housing and the PMCMV.
