La "cuestión social" en la España de la restauración monárquica (1874-1931): apuntes históricos para la génesis de la profesionalización de lo social = The "social question" in the restauration of the monarchy period (1874-1931): historical notes on the genesis of the profesionalization of social issues

Abstract

The article here presented entails an exercise of historical contextualization about the manifestations and specifies of the “social issue” in Spain, the schools of thought that conceptualize it and the ideological-political and practical-institutional impacts its treatment causes. It also entails an investigation of the bases previous to the emergence of the professionalization of the today called “social work” (previously known as social assistance or social services). It analyses how the different meanings were posed in the period known as Bourbon Restoration (1874-1931), which finishes with the 2nd Republic and the later francoist dictatorship. The development of social public action in this period will noticeably condition the ways of the (later) professionalization of the social intervention in Spain (social assistance/social work