Childcare provision in neoliberal times : the marketization of care /

Subjecting the 'black box' of childcare markets to closer scrutiny, this book brings to light complex political, social and economic work of making childcare markets.

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Main Author: Gallagher, Aisling (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Series:Sociology of children and families series.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Table of tables and boxes -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Childcare as a Market of Collective Concern -- Neoliberalism and the rise of a market ethic -- Addressing new social problems: making markets of collective concern -- Childcare as a site of interest for neoliberal policy communities -- Markets as the answer to the childcare problem? -- Childcare markets in Australia and the UK -- State-led marketization in Australia -- State-led marketization in the UK -- Approach of the book -- Chapter overview -- 2 Childcare Markets as an Object of Study -- Who cares? Critiques of marketized childcare and the role of the state -- Social studies of markets -- 1. Markets are not naturally occurring, they are 'practical accomplishments' -- 2. Market failures are the norm, not the exception -- 3. Markets are a socio-technical assemblage of human and non-human elements -- 4. Markets need to mobilize adherents -- 5. Markets are highly contested spaces -- Childcare markets from an SSM perspective -- Methodology: studying childcare markets anew? -- Conclusion -- 3 State-Led Marketization: The Creation of the New Zealand Childcare Market -- Childcare as a neoliberal policy solution in New Zealand -- Framing the childcare market: the Before Five reforms -- Enrolling actors into the market -- Overflowing the Before Fives -- Reframing the market through the Strategic Plan 2002-2012 -- Market contestation: the 20 hours free ECE payment -- Market asymmetries and the growth of the private sector -- Conclusion -- 4 Private Providers, Childcare Labour and the Problem of Finance -- Contesting the value of childcare labour -- Bigger is better? Childcare market consolidation as a financial strategy -- Childcare financialization: the case of Evolve Education. 
505 8 |a Borrowing from the future: the financial strategies of small scale providers -- Conclusion -- 5 The Childcare Property Investment Market -- Researching a governmental blind spot -- Property investment and the problem of finance -- Childcare property: from building to asset -- Rentiership and the cost of care -- Non-human matters -- Conclusion -- 6 Childcare Management Software and Data Infrastructures in the Market -- Governing the market through data -- Managing finance through the software -- Data analytics and managing services in 'real time' -- Non-economic rationales: using the software to make time for care -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- State-led marketization and the fragility of childcare markets -- Childcare markets: going forward -- 8 Epilogue: Market Responses to COVID-19 -- References -- Index -- Back Cover. 
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