Aproximación a las condiciones sociohistóricas de la gerencialización de la política asistencial en el Uruguay “progresista”

The article tries to identify the form that takes the management of the assistance policy and to reconstruct the sociohistorical conditions under which this process was developed. From a historical reconstruction of processes and societal transformations, we will analyze the future of production, the information revolution, the advance of automation, the new administrative management of business management of human resources for the public sphere and the metamorphosis of labor, as Precarization and flexibilization, among other phenomena. The hierarchy of efficiency parameters, the emergence of a new institutionality, the emphasis on the evaluation of results and the monitoring of processes, the knowledge requirements and professional agents that traditionally have not been associated to the assistance interventions, etc. are Indicative of the institutionalization of a form of managerial assistance whose features could be identified in the policies to combat poverty in the 1990s. Principles and orientations characteristic of the production of goods have permeated the “production” of social services. While highlighting the particularities of the Uruguayan case, we believe that we contribute to a broader debate about the institutional features of “modern” care policy and the associated work processes.