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Social Science Children's Studies

Their Rightful Place

An Essay on Children, Families and Childcare in Canada

by (author) Loren Lind & Susan Prentice

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1992
Category
Children's Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921908104
    Publish Date
    Jan 1992
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

Childcare is caught between the opposing poles of human needs and capital formation. On the one hand, caring is intimately tied up in how we define ourselves, in our loving and intimate relationships, in the parts of our lives where, if fortunate, we freely choose and feel cherished. On the other hand, care is also an integral part of economic reproduction, the demands of labour and the profit-making system.
How are we to deal with this clash?

About the authors

Loren Lind, the author of The Learning Machine: A Hard Look At Toronto Schools, is a former Globe and Mail education reporter. He is currently a professor of journalism at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.

Loren Lind's profile page

Susan Prentice is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba, a member of the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba, and a longtime feminist. She specializes on childcare and her research focuses on family, women’s work, social policy and the state, market forces/privatization, and social movement organizing.

Susan Prentice's profile page