The Politics of Child Daycare in Britain

ISBN-13: 9780198280484 / Twarda / 2001 / 232 str.

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Opis

Arguing that daycare is vital for gender equality, this book seeks to explain why provision, especially public provision, has been so meager in Britain. Adopting a predominantly institutional approach, it shows how the liberal tradition of limited state intervention has intersected with the private, family, as well as the potentailly redistributive, character of childcare issues. It also highlights the gendered assumptions of policy-makers, the centralization of governmental process, the weakness of the childcare lobby, and of feminist mobilization on childcare and simple contingencies of timing.

Recenzje

A timely and welcome book which explores the politics of childcare in postwar Britain ... This is a useful book because it helps explain the slow development of childcare policies and the factors shaping that development.

O autorze

Vicky Randall, Reader, Department of Government, University of Essex