Social Reproduction and the City: Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York

by Simon Black

Book Overview

The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York's unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services "on the cheap," relying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820357545
• ISBN13: 9780820357546
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"