Nannies, Migration and Early Childhood Education and Care

Nannies, Migration and Early Childhood Education and Care PDF Author: Elizabeth Adamson
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447330145
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
In recent years, changes in the labor market, including an increase in the number of young working mothers, has led to a rapid growth of employment for nannies throughout the Western world. That rapid growth, however, has come with an increase in long, nonstandard working hours and in the context of a lack of regulation or of affordable, flexible solutions to the demand for early childhood education and care. This book offers empirical research and comparative analysis of in-home childcare in Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada, three nations where governments are actively recruiting migrant workers as an affordable childcare solution, showing how in-home childcare is ultimately, if indirectly, supported by government early childcare policy and migration policy.