We are not babysitters : family childcare providers redefine work and care /

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Main Author: Tuominen, Mary C., 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers, 2003
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • "Some people don't consider it work" : investigating the work of family child care
  • "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
  • "You're just a housewife" : contesting stereotypes about motherhood, marriage, and family child care
  • "When you have your family, you need your money" : employment opportunities and the meaning of family child care work
  • "It's word of mouth" : social networks, local markets, and the provision of state-subsidized family child care
  • "That's where I saw the need" : family child care as community care work
  • "I had to educate the world that this is my work" : redefining and revaluing family child care work.