The business of care: Marketisation and the new geographies of childcare
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Date
2017-04-25
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SAGE Publications
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The Author(s) 2017. Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Abstract
The aim of this article is to outline a geographical research agenda for studying the marketization of childcare in Western neoliberal contexts. While childcare has been a key site of interrogation for feminist geographers, highlighting the profound inequities of marketized care for many who work in and use childcare, the contours of the childcare market as a situated and constructed economic entity has remained under-examined. I suggest that at a time when more families than ever rely on extra-familial childcare, an appreciation of how childcare markets function is urgently needed.
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childcare, markets, neoliberalization, welfare reform, women's work
Citation
PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2018, 42 (5), pp. 706 - 722