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9780415117418

Who Will Mind the Baby?: Geographies of Childcare and Working Mothers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415117418

  • ISBN10:

    0415117410

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1996-11-06
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Among the most significant socioeconomic changes of the 20th century has been the explosion in the number of mothers in the work place and the rapid shift of the task of child raising onto both parents. As parents scramble to find adequate and accessible child-care, it becomes vividly clear that our service sector and public policies have in no way kept up with this drastic shift.Who Will Mind the Baby?explores how working mothers negotiate their responsibilities in the face of these difficulties. Contrasting the limited child care policies of the United States and Canada with the more advanced situations in Europe and Australia, this book explores the socio-spatial implications of public policies in the US and Canada that relate to the provision, funding and regulation of child care.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Who Will Mind the Baby?p. 3
Minding the Baby in the United Statesp. 23
Minding the Baby in Canadap. 36
Making the Transition to School: Which communities provide full-day public kindergarten?p. 49
Child Care Services in Ontario: Service availability in a decentralized provision systemp. 62
The Journey to Child Care in a Rural American Settingp. 77
The Locational Context of Child Care Centers in Metropolitan Torontop. 93
Mothers, Wives, Workers: The everyday lives of working mothersp. 109
Mother or Worker?: Women's support networks, local knowledge and informal child care strategiesp. 123
The State and Child Care: An international review from a geographical perspectivep. 143
Conclusionp. 169
Appendicesp. 178
Notesp. 180
Referencesp. 186
Indexp. 200
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