Abstract: Discusses the relevance of public intervention for redistributive ends in the social services sector. Stages in the development of public intervention in the distributional equity and economic development; Factors associated with the coincidence in time between development and security; Adoption of methods of adjustment for the economic crisis and the crisis of the Welfare State in the 1970s.

　　Subjects: SOCIAL service; CONSUMER cooperatives; ECONOMICS; Other Individual and Family Services