Social service and social work in Latin America

Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century, due to the expansion of monopoly capitalism in the configuration of peripheral economies, Latin America demanded a praxis that would intervene in the consequences of the material conditions (objective and subjective) of social reproduction, especially embodied in the most exploited classes; European social service and Anglo-Saxon North American social work were the main platforms that were institutionalized in the region in the face of these devastating transformations.