Social Reproduction and the City - 9780820357553

Social Reproduction and the CityWelfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York\nAuthor(s): Simon Black\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820357553, 978-0820357553\nSynopsis\nThe transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New Yorks unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services on the cheap, relying on non-union home child care providers, welfare rights organizations, community legal clinics, child care advocates, low-income community groups, activist mothers, and labor unions organized to demand fair solutions to the child care crisis that addressed poor s.