In Whose Interest? Voluntarism and Child Care, 1880-1980

Autor/in	Swain, Shurlee
Titel	In Whose Interest? Voluntarism and Child Care, 1880-1980
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 29 (2004) 4, S.24-32 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0312-5033
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Employed Women; War; Child Care; Volunteers; World History; Employed Parents; Child Welfare; Social Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Krieg; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Freiwilliger; Weltgeschichte; Kindeswohl; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	This paper examines three periods in the history of child care: nineteenth-century creches, World War II day nurseries, and the 1970s Community Child Care movement. It argues that, in each of these periods, the services were shaped by three sets of competing interests: those of the mothers who needed or wanted to work; their children; and the volunteer committees or collectives anxious to "rescue" children from forms of care they considered unsuitable. The final resolution, in each case, reflected not simply a response to the needs of working women and their children but rather a more complex process that often owed at least as much to the values of the service providers as those of the mothers and children in their care. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10