Social work in the dictatorship

Abstract

Social work as a discipline and space of historical resistance keeps a political and social analysis from its formation and rapid development. The military dictatorship established by Augusto Pinochet in Chile embodied a path of repression, torture and clandestinity for the discipline, so it was necessary to generate new spheres of professional intervention, far from the murderous gaze of the de facto government. The feminist movements of the time and the role of social workers became key axes for organizing the community and resisting the state of terror generated by the de facto government. In addition to visualizing this trench of struggle, the discipline managed to build resistance processes that today maintain their professional identity.