This article recapitulates tbe most known trajectory and historical paradigms of social protection of tbe "excluded ones" in capitalist societies, differing from tbe present Welfare State, after tbe Beveridge Plano Then it contextualizes tbe success of tbe new public organization of social protection, witbin tbe capitalist "Golden Age" (1950-1970). After discussing some typologies on tbe literature on Welfare, it places tbe problem of its slow inarticulation or redefinition within the context of economic crises and the ideological victory of liberal-conservatism in central and peripheric countries.
Welfare State; social protection; crisis