Social Science Children's Studies
Their Rightful Place
An Essay on Children, Families and Childcare in Canada
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Category
- Children's Studies
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921908104
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $14.95
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Out of print
This edition is not currently available in bookstores. Check your local library or search for used copies at Abebooks.
Description
Childcare is caught between the opposing poles of human needs and capital formation. On the one hand, caring is intimately tied up in how we define ourselves, in our loving and intimate relationships, in the parts of our lives where, if fortunate, we freely choose and feel cherished. On the other hand, care is also an integral part of economic reproduction, the demands of labour and the profit-making system.
How are we to deal with this clash?
About the authors
Loren Lind, the author of The Learning Machine: A Hard Look At Toronto Schools, is a former Globe and Mail education reporter. He is currently a professor of journalism at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.
Susan Prentice is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba, a member of the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba, and a longtime feminist. She specializes on childcare and her research focuses on family, women’s work, social policy and the state, market forces/privatization, and social movement organizing.
