Lavorare sulla linea: il mito della collaborazione e i manager intermediA

The introduction of managerial logic in social services has led social workers to have new skills and knowledge in the management field and extended the hierarchy of services. The present paper focuses on the myth of collaboration as a professional principle for social workers in the era of managerialism. Starting from the study «Social professions and changes in the welfare system» funded by the Regional Order of Social Workers of Piedmont, the point of view adopted is the one of the line managers because they work on the production line and on the border between the different professions. Through the analysis of the requests made by the professionals, of the distances that are created between the different professionals and of the crushing of line managers between the staff and senior managers, this work proposes to consider the myth of collaboration as resilient.