This article concerns the intervention of Social Work in processes of popular mobilization and organization and focuses in particular on the contemporary debate about the issue. This debate is presented in the academic production of authors specifically concerning the pedagogic and educational functions of social workers and their insertion in working class organizations. In this systematization, priority is given to formulations that have gained relevance in the professional debate and that offer some considerations needed for the analysis and to develop an outlook on the relationship of the profession with the processes of mobilization and popular organization.
Social Work; Professional debate; Mobilization; Popular organization