This article is a version, with minor additions, the lecture given at the 5th Annual Seminar of Social Work Cortez publishing house. His main concern is tangential some of the features that distinguish the "social question" in Brazil, considering the determinants of social formation. From them, supports the hypothesis that they are being updated through the contemporary crisis, based on ideology "neodevelopmentist" at the government "age" Lula da Silva.
"Social question"; Neodevelopmentist; Work
