The Anthology
Edited by Susan Prentice, 2001.
Fernwood, Halifax.
224 pp, paper
ISBN: 1 55266 062 1
$24.95
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Description from the book cover
Most parents of young children need child care services to help them work or study. Yet the licensed child care system has space for less than 1 in 10 children and is generally unaffordable for most parents. Quality, accessibility and affordability vary wildly within and between provinces and territories. While Quebec has a $5-a-day child care system, the rest of the coun- try leaves child care to the family and the market. When and why do governments implement progressive child care policies? The contributors in Changing Child Care address this and other questions, and examine the different child care systems Canadians have adopted. The history of the five decades of mobilization and policy making in Canada is explored throughout this book. Unlike those who would claim that child care is primarily a private family matter, the authors argue that child care is better understood as a public responsibility and part of the public good.
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction, Looking back, moving forward
Susan Prentice
Playing Together as Canadians: Historical Lessons from the West End Creche
Wendy J. Atkin
Acting Locally: Community Activism in Edmonton, 1940-1970
Sheila D. Campbell
From Social Movement to Marginalized Interest Groups: Advocating for Quality Child Care in Alberta, 1965-1986
Tom Langford
Family Policy, Child Care and Social Solidarity: The Case of Quebec
Jane Jenson
From Ideal to Pragmatic Politics: National Child Care Advocacy Groups in the 1980s and 1990s
Linda A. White
Working with Parties: Success and Failure of Child Care Advocates in British Columbia and Ontario in the 1990s
Cheryl Collier
Advocacy Ignored: Child Care Policy in Ontario in the 1990s
Vappu Tyyskä
In the Absence of Policy: Moving Toward the Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in Child Care
Sharon Hope Irwin and Donna S. Lero
History, Lessons and a Case for Change in Child Care Advocacy
Judith A. Martin
Federal Child Care Policy Development From World War II to 2000
Rebecca Kelley Scherer