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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuominen, Mary C., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child care workers.

Family day care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using in-depth interviews with child care providers, Mary C. Tuominen explores the social, political, and economic forces and processes that draw women into the work of family child care. In We Are Not Babysitters, the lives and work of twenty family child care providers of diverse race, ethnicity, immigrant status, and social class serve as a window into understanding the changing meanings of community, family, work, and care. Their stories require us to rethink the social and economic value of paid child care providers and their work.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-8135-6019-5

0-8135-3635-9

OCLC:

567850780