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Abstract
The precarization of social work through social volunteerism is scarcely studied in Puerto Rico. To explain how affects the volunteering like precarious factor in the profession, we used the theories of the French School of Regulation and the McDonaldization. These theories study the socio-institutional relations since its crystallization. As part of this crystallization it also explain the dynamics of State assuming public policies to shift their responsibilities to the private sphere. Social responsibilities become the subject of explicit international competition. Jessop (1993) calls this: "hollowed out" Shumpeterian workfare state. This type of state crystallized and systematized from public policies and the normalization of economic trends, such as laws governing incorporation. In order to understand this we use the speech analysis technique on Law number 261 of 2004 and the public debate to preapproval of it. In Puerto Rico this law, also known as the Volunteer Act of Puerto Rico, regulates social volunteering. In this process, social volunteering is established as a new working relationship simultaneously creating new bureaucratic institutions and private nonprofit organizations are created. New ways of working are justified through discourses of citizen participation and social responsibility. This has an effect of savings and profits for the capitalist classes, in this case resulting into economic and social losses for social workers.