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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827232903321

Autore

Tuominen Mary C. <1952->

Titolo

We are not babysitters : family childcare providers redefine work and care / / Mary C. Tuominen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers, c2003

ISBN

0-8135-6019-5

0-8135-3635-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

362.71/2

Soggetti

Child care workers

Family day care

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: "SOME PEOPLE DON'T CONSIDER IT WORK": Investigating the Work of Family Child Care -- Chapter 2:  "I KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO GIVE YOUR KIDS TO SOMEBODY ELSE": Synthesizing the Family and the Market in the Work of Family Child Care -- Chapter 3: "YOU'RE JUST A HOUSEWIFE": Contesting Stereotypes about Motherhood, Marriage, and Family Child Care -- Chapter 4: "WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR FAMILY, YOU NEED YOUR MONEY": Employment Opportunities and the Meaning of Family Child Care Work -- Chapter 5: "IT'S WORD OF MOUTH": Social Networks, Local Markets, and the Provision of State-Subsidized Family Child Care -- Chapter 6: "THAT'S WHERE I SAW THE NEED": Family Child Care As Community Care Work -- Chapter 7: "I HAD TO EDUCATE THE WORLD THAT THIS IS MY WORK": Redefining and Revaluing Family Child Care Work -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.