Inventing the working parent : work, gender, and feminism in neoliberal Britain / Sarah E. Stoller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoller, Sarah E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of working parents--Great Britain.

Children of working parents.

Neoliberalism--Great Britain.

Neoliberalism.

Parenting--Great Britain.

Parenting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Charts how corporate and government handling of working parents in the 1980s and 1990s followed the development of neo-liberalism"-- Provided by publisher.650.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Who Cares? The Problem of Childcare for Working Parents

2 From Women's Liberation to New Ways to Work: Feminist Labor Activism and the Making of Working Parenthood

3 From Equality to Diversity: Working Parents in the Public Sector

4 Making the Business Case: The Rise of the "Family-Friendly" Private Sector

5 Becoming a Working Parent: Labor Intensification and the Pursuit of "Having It All"

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262375078

0262375079

9780262375061

0262375060

OCLC:

1356406038