Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times

The Marketization of Care

AvAisling Gallagher

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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In the absence of public provision, many governments rely on the market to meet childcare demand. But who are the actors shaping this market? What work do they do to marketize care? And what does it mean for how childcare is provided?Based on an innovative theoretical framework and an in-depth study of the New Zealand childcare market, Gallagher examines the problematic growth of private, for-profit childcare. Opening the ‘black box’ of childcare markets to closer scrutiny, this book brings to light the complex political, social and economic dynamics behind childcare provisioning.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:306 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Sociology of Children and Families
Antal sidor:190
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529206517

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Aisling Gallagher is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research focuses broadly on the geographies of care, welfare and social reproduction in neoliberal contexts, with a special interest in the marketisation of childcare.

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“Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times is an important book because it does not take current norms of neoliberal childcare markets for granted but investigates their formation. As a result, it shows how states play a fundamental role in shaping childcare markets.” Contemporary Sociology

Innehållsförteckning

1. Childcare as a Market for Collective Concern2. Childcare Markets as an Object of Study3. State-Led Marketization: The Creation of the New Zealand Childcare Market4. Private Providers, Childcare Labour and the Problem of Finance5. The Childcare Property Investment Market6. Childcare Management Software and Data Infrastructures in the Market7. Conclusion8. Epilogue: Market Responses to COVID-19