We Are Not Babysitters: Family Child Care Providers Redefine Work and Care

By Mary C. Tuominen

Book Overview

Using in-depth interviews with child care providers, Mary C. Tuominen explores the social, political, and economic forces and processes that draw women into the work of family child care. In We Are Not Babysitters, the lives and work of twenty family child care providers of diverse race, ethnicity, immigrant status, and social class serve as a window into understanding the changing meanings of community, family, work, and care. Their stories require us to rethink the social and economic value of paid child care providers and their work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813532833
• ISBN13: 9780813532837
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"