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In Brazil during the 1930s, Social Work emerged as an institutionalized profession under the strong ideological and moral patronage of the Catholic Church. Which historical factor directly motivated the Catholic Church to establish the first Social Work training centers, such as the Centro de Estudos e Ação Social (CEAS) in São Paulo?

The Church sought to restore social hegemony and contain working-class communist mobilization by offering moralized charitable intervention within the expanding urban-industrial working class. The Church sought to establish a secular state apparatus dedicated to the radical redistribution of private agricultural land and the immediate abolition of industrial wage labor. The Church aimed to align Brazilian social policy with Protestant philanthropic models imported from North American social casework agencies operating in São Paulo during the Old Republic era. The Church planned to replace judicial court systems with ecclesiastical arbitration boards that would resolve industrial labor disputes without any state involvement or labor legislation.

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The Church sought to restore social hegemony and contain working-class communist mobilization by offering moralized charitable intervention within the expanding urban-industrial working class.

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