O mercado de trabalho do serviço social na política de saúde em Alagoas no contexto da pandemia de COVID-19

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the Social Service job market in the health sector in Alagoas, reflecting on the transformations arising from the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. It outlines the historical recovery of labor relations in the Social Service profession in capitalist society, going back from its genesis in the first phases of the capitalist system to the present day. Thisis a bibliographical and documentary research, with quantitative and qualitative data research, discussing the contribution of the profession to the Unified Health System(SUS), as well as the challenges of making work more flexible and precarious. Finally, analyzes of information on the demands of the job market in Alagoas between the years 2016 to 2018 and the pandemic situation from 2020 to 2022 are exposed. The study indicated that the job market for Social Service professionals in Alagoas in the period between 2016 and 2018 is precarious, demanding and the majority of hiring methods are unstable, offering low pay and between 2020 and 2022, despite the increase in demand for vacancies in the health sector, in the context of the pandemic, hiring remains unstable and precarious work relationships.