Autore: Guidi, Riccardo
Titolo: Oltre l'implementazione. L'agire politico dei social workers in Italia e Spagna in tempi di crisi
Periodico: Politiche Sociali
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 291 - Pagina finale: 310

Social practitioners that implement public policies in the front-line of services can beconsidered as ultimate policy-makers (Lipsky 1980, Brodkin 2003). However, professionaldocuments and literature legitimate social workers’ political action beyond implementation.On the basis of the international debate on «policy practice» (Gal and Weiss-Gal 2013) and the comparative analysis of the activities of the social work professionalorganizations in Italy and Spain between 2009 and 2015 – the worst years of recessionand austerity – the article sheds light on the forms, opportunities and problems of socialworkers’ political action, as well as on the constraints coming from structural factors.Our results show that the political action of the social work professional organizationsin Italy and Spain in times of crisis has grown and developed in different ways, largelypath-dependent.




SICI: 2284-2098(2020)2<291:OLLPDS>2.0.ZU;2-2
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