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

Author: Mary C Tuominen
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mary C Tuominen
ISBN: 0813532825 9780813532820 0813532833 9780813532837
OCLC Number: 50725418
Description: viii, 206 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Mary C. Tuominen.

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