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.

“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

• 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

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.

“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

• 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

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.

“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

• 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