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Who cares for our children? : the child care crisis in the other America
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- Creator
- Valerie Polakow ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Teachers College Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807747742, 0807747742, 9780807747759, 0807747750
- OCLC
- ocm76786703
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.
- Introduction: Who cares? -- Whose rights? -- Young, vulnerable, and poor : confronting the child care maze -- Struggling and juggling : school, work, and child care -- On the edges : when two parents can't make it -- "Difficult" children : disrupted placements and expulsions -- Immigrant mothers : child care in the shadows -- "It was a wonderful and different change" : when child care works -- The right to child care