(How) is childminding family like?: Family day care, food and the reproduction of identity at the public/private interface
An anthropological study of the the ethnic and class negotiations and compromises related to special food requests in home-based child care sites, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2005 with 8 child caretakers in an inner London borough
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Masculinity and child care: The reconstruction of fathering
A study of Norwegian fathers’ use of paid and unpaid parental leave, and their construction of masculinity in connection with caregiving; the data was collected through surveying roughly 960 new fathers in Trondheim, 260 new fathers throughout Norway who used paid family leave, and in-depth interviews with ten couples who shared the parental leave period
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Middle class fractions, childcare and the 'relational' and 'normative' aspects of class practices
An examination of how British ''service class'' families select their child care arrangements, investigating how child care choices position children towards different long-term educational goals as well as how social class impacts child care arrangements
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Paperwork, rotas, words and posters: An anthropological account of some inner London childminders' encounters with professionalisation
An examination of family child care workers' perspectives on professionalism, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with 22 child care workers in an inner London borough between November 2003 and August 2005 and interviews with parents
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Selective identification, quiet distancing: Understanding the working-class response to the Nordic daycare model
A study of the alignment of child care services with working-class values and images of optimal childhoods, based on interviews with 58 Norwegian working-class families with infants or toddlers and their children's preschool teachers between 2006 and 2008
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Welfare state regimes and the social organization of labour: Childcare arrangements and the work/family balance dilemma
A discussion of policy issues surrounding increased rates of maternal employment and maintaining a work-life balance in the European Union
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When a scratch becomes 'a scary story': The social construction of micro panics in center-based child care
An analysis “micro panics” that may arise in response to accusations
of lodged against center-based child care workers by parents
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