This article deals with the conflicts between the economic and political neoliberal capitalistic structure and the proposal of citizenship and defense of rights of the critical Social Work in the professional daily life of the institutions. It analyzes the relations of exploitation linked with those of power and survival, as well as those between professionals and subjects who order services, so as to identify challenges of the professional work while thinking about and learning how to get awareness and to build up strategies related to counter-hegemony in the complexity of daily life.
Capitalism and social policy; Critical Social Work; Social rights