SOC352H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Child Care, Father, Neoliberalism
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The conflicts of caring: gender, race, ethnicity, and individualism in family child-care. Childcare centers are not most prevalent, rather through informal networks. Proportion of children care for by paid homebased workers equals proportion of children receiving paid care in centers. Centers and nannies varied, family child care remained stable source. Motherhood is morally and practically incompatible with labor-force participation, sexual division of labour divides responsibilities, maternity and childrearing responsibility of individual families, dualistic vision of private and public social spheres. Liberal polities are built on the premise that their individual members are capable of caring, providing, and deciding for themselves. therefore, liberal individualism has no place for dependence and the caring work that goes with it . The work of caregiving, work historically performed as unwaged work by women outside of the formal market economy, remains ignored in the philosophy of liberal individualism and devalued in its economic counterpart, the market economy.
