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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"child care policy"”.
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Organizing for Social Policy Change: Child Care Policy Advocacy in Canada
Taking up the campaigns for a federal child care program as an example of social movement advocacy for policy change, this thesis examines how social actors have understood the need for better federal social policy related to child care in Canada. I develop a policy and advocacy history to preface …
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Policy legacies and child care politics in Australia and Canada
… significantly different paths in national-level child care policy despite their otherwise similar welfare state structures. Australia has developed a relatively generous system of public subsidies to support the provision of care for young children, while at the same time relying increasingly on …
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The child care conundrum : the costs and consequences of unmet early child care needs among parents working at academic institutions across the United States
… the United States are saddled with a burgeoning child care conundrum, a mismatch between the skyrocketing need for child care and the fundamental insufficiency of child care infrastructure and policies to address the growing demand. To be sure, the broken child care market -- characterized by too …
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From the Poor law to New Labour: a comparative analysis of interventions to support families
… Law, and places these changes within the wider child care policy context. It highlights the importance of the Children Act 1989 to the recent development of support services for families. It argues that placing family support services within a framework ensures that services are developed to …
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“On the Floor” and “At the Table”: Child Care Work, Advocacy, and the Devaluation of Social Reproduction in Canada’s Non-Profit Sector
… and increasingly precarious providers of care. Drawing on social reproduction theory, it conceptualizes community-based non-profit work as a critical yet persistently undervalued site of social reproduction. Focusing on child care provision and advocacy in Ontario, the dissertation asks: …