In Our Hands : : The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy / / Corey S. Shdaimah, Elizabeth Palley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Palley, Elizabeth,; Shdaimah, Corey S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Families, Law, and Society ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

A call for better child care policies, exploring the reasons why there has been so little headway on a problem that touches so many families. Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women’s paychecks on average make up 35 perce...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Framing
• 3. History
• 4. The Role of Interest Groups
• 5. Current U.S. Child Care Policies
• 6. Women and Child Care
• 7. Strategic Framing of Child Care
• 8. Child Care as a Social Movement
• 9. If We Have a Major Social Problem, Why Is There No Movement for Change?
• Afterword
• Appendix 1. A Brief Note on Research Methods
• Appendix 2. Interview Guide for Interest Groups and Organizations Including Unions
• Appendix 3. Study Respondents by Organization and Role
• Appendix 4. Conservative Organization Websites Reviewed
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Authors