| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Contents |
Nannies, Migration and Early Childhood Education and Care; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Definition and scope; Why is in-home childcare important?; Trends in maternal employment and ECEC usage; Policy snapshot; Empirical approach; Book structure and chapter outline; Part One. Conceptual and historical analysis of in-home childcare; 1. Restructuring care: concepts and classifications; Rise in non-standard employment; Conceptualising care, redistributing responsibilities ; Markets, regulation and migration |
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Rationales for restructuring: the shift to 'social investment' Ideals of care; 2. Restructuring care: comparative policy developments; Australia; United Kingdom; Canada; Restructuring support for ECEC: a new direction?; 3. Policy structures in Australia, the UK and Canada; Overview of current ECEC systems; Country summary; Intersecting policies for in-home childcare; Contrasts and commonalities; Part Two. Policy intersections and inequalities; 4. Rhetoric and rationales for in-home childcare; The social investment approach; Rhetoric of in-home childcare: rationales for investment |
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Converging ideas and policy tensionsSituating tensions within a broader social investment context; 5. Intersecting inequalities ; Restructuring of inequalities; Families versus care workers; 6. Cultures of in-home childcare ; Concept of care culture; Inequalities and policy debates; Cultures of inequality?; Conclusion ; What has changed?; Why has in-home childcare changed?; Implications for families and care workers; Policy lessons; Why do changes to in-home childcare matter for comparative social policy?; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book presents new empirical research about in-home child care in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, three countries where governments are pursuing new ways to support the recruitment of in-home childcare workers through funding, regulation and migration |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Nannies -- Employment.
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Early childhood education.
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Education, Primary.
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early childhood education.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
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Education, Primary
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Early childhood education
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Nannies -- Employment
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Kindermädchen
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Kinderpflege
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Internationaler Vergleich
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Au-pair-Mädchen
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Australien
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Großbritannien
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Kanada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781447330158 |
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1447330153 |
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9781447330165 |
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1447330161 |
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1447333802 |
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9781447333807 |
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