ISBN
978-1529206517Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529206494Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529206548Imprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529206548Imprint
Bristol University Press
Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times
In the absence of public provision, many governments rely on the market to meet childcare demand. But who are the actors shaping this market? What work do they do to marketize care? And what does it mean for how childcare is provided?
Based on an innovative theoretical framework and an in-depth study of the New Zealand childcare market, Gallagher examines the problematic growth of private, for-profit childcare. Opening the ‘black box’ of childcare markets to closer scrutiny, this book brings to light the complex political, social and economic dynamics behind childcare provisioning.
"Easily the most intelligent and sophisticated analysis of markets in childcare, this book is essential reading for all who seek to understand markets in human services." Deborah Brennan, University of New South Wales
Aisling Gallagher is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research focuses broadly on the geographies of care, welfare and social reproduction in neoliberal contexts, with a special interest in the marketisation of childcare.
1. Childcare as a Market for Collective Concern
2. Childcare Markets as an Object of Study
3. State-Led Marketization: The Creation of the New Zealand Childcare Market
4. Private Providers, Childcare Labour and the Problem of Finance
5. The Childcare Property Investment Market
6. Childcare Management Software and Data Infrastructures in the Market
7. Conclusion
8. Epilogue: Market Responses to COVID-19
