基本説明
Focuses on relations of power and inequality in carework; family and neighbourhood resources; workplace demands and opportunities for parents; and carework and the welfare state.
Full Description
Child Care and Inequality provides an in-depth investigation of carework for children and youth of all ages. This outstanding collection of original essays encourages us to rethink carework and to explore policies that address the needs of both care recipients and careworkers.
Contents
1. Introduction to the Volume Section I: Re-Thinking Family Care Work 2. Almost Worried to Death: Commonalities and Divisions among American Women Caring for Children, 1850-1940 3. Stratification and Care Work: The Case of Mothers 4. Comrades en el Barrio: The Cultural Practice of Co-Mothering in a Rural Paraguyan Neighbourhood 5. Nurturing Babies, Protecting Men: The dynamics of Women's Post-Partum Caregiving Practices 5. Developing Non-Oppressive Standards of good Care Section II: Family Intersections with the State 7. Health-Related Caregiving and Welfare Reform: The Choices Welfare-Reliant Women and Policy Makers Face 8. Making Mothers Fungible: The Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Privatization of Foster Care 9. Are Breadwinner Welfare States Friendly to Mothers and Single Mothers? Section III: Carework in the Marketplace and Community 10. Theorizing Care and Inequality 11. Child Care across Sectors: A Comparison of the Work of Child Care in Three Settings 12. Where Teachers Can Make a Liveable Wage: Activism to Address Inequalities in the Child Care Workforce 13. Activist Mothering and Community Work: Fighting Oppression in Low Income Neighbourhoods 14. Professional Caregivers and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth 15. Social Support Organizations for Parents of Children with Cancer Associations: Local and National Problems and Prospects