The Universal Childcare Debate: Rights Mobilization, Social Policy, and the Dynamics of Feminist Activism, 1966–1974

Dinner, Deborah

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“…In the U.S., the Comprehensive Child Development Act (CCDA), or Mondale-Brademas bill, of 1971 came closest to creating a universal, publicly supported childcare program. The CCDA, which would have granted low-income families access to free childcare and made these services available to other families on a sliding fee scale, passed both Houses of Congress, but was vetoed by President Nixon (Berry 1993 ; Dinner 2010 ; Michel 1999 ).…”

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The invisible labor and multidimensional impacts of negotiating childcare on farms

2020

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Social science inquiries of American agriculture have long recognized the inextricability of farm households and farm businesses. Efforts to train and support farmers, however, often privilege business realm indicators over social issues. Such framings implicitly position households as disconnected from farm stress or farm success. This article argues that systematically tracing the pathways between farm households and farm operations represents a potentially powerful inroad towards identifying effective support interventions. We argue childcare arrangements are an underrecognized challenge through which farm household dynamics directly influence agricultural production. We draw on interviews and focus group data with farmers in the Northeastern United States to understand how farmer-parents access and negotiate childcare. Farmerparents value raising children on farms, but express reluctance to expect current or future labor from them. Years with young children thus represent an especially vulnerable phase during a farm's trajectory. We identify and analyze social, economic, and cognitive pathways through which childcare impacts farm operations. Social pathways include relationship tensions and gendered on-farm divisions of labor; economic pathways include farm layout and structure; cognitive pathways include how farmers think about and plan for their operations. Explicitly acknowledging such issues can better equip farmer-parents to anticipate and plan for conflicting demands on their time.

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Labor, Diversity, and Democracy

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The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy

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In May 2017, 3.8 percent of workers-5.9 million persons-held contingent jobs, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. These contingent workers are persons who do not expect their jobs to last or who report that their jobs are temporary. Using three different measures, contingent workers accounted for 1.3 percent to 3.8 percent of total employment in May 2017. (See tables A and 1.) In February 2005, the last time the survey was conducted, all three measures were higher, ranging from 1.8 percent to 4.1 percent of employment.In addition to contingent workers, the survey also identified workers who have various alternative work arrangements. In May 2017, there were 10.6 million independent contractors (6.9 percent of total employment), 2.6 million on-call workers (1.7 percent of total employment), 1.4 million temporary help agency workers (0.9 percent of total employment), and 933,000 workers provided by contract firms (0.6 percent of total employment). (See tables A and 5.) Contingent work and alternative employment arrangements are measured separately. Some workers are both contingent and working in an alternative arrangement, but this is not automatically the case. The measures of contingent work and alternative employment arrangements apply only to a person's sole or main job. For individuals with more than one job, this is the job in which they usually work the most hours. Note on New Questions in 2017 Contingent Worker SupplementFour new questions were added to the May 2017 Contingent Worker Supplement. These questions were designed to identify individuals who found short tasks or jobs through a mobile app or website and were paid through the same app or website. BLS continues to evaluate the data from these new questions; the data do not appear in this news release. When available, additional information will be at www.bls.gov/cps/electronically-mediated-employment.htm. Findings from this research will be published in a Monthly Labor Review article by September 30, 2018.

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The Universal Childcare Debate: Rights Mobilization, Social Policy, and the Dynamics of Feminist Activism, 1966–1974

Abstract: Beginning in the late 1960s, diverse strands of the modern women's movement-liberal, radical, and African American feminists-envisioned childcare as a right. 1 In movement tracts, organizational newsletters, and

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The invisible labor and multidimensional impacts of negotiating childcare on farms

The invisible labor and multidimensional impacts of negotiating childcare on farms

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