New economy, neoliberal state and professionalised parenting: mothers' labour market engagement and state support for social reproduction in class-differentiated Britain
New economy, neoliberal state and professionalised parenting: mothers' labour market engagement and state support for social reproduction in class-differentiated Britain
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新经济、新自由主义国家和专业化育儿：阶级分化的英国中母亲的劳动力市场参与和国家对社会再生产的支持
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10.1111/tran.12130
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Holloway S
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Holloway S
全球北方的当代经济、政治和社会变化正在重新配置生产性和生殖性劳动的解决方案。本文探讨了新经济的出现，新自由主义国家的推出以及育儿的专业化如何改变：（i）有小学学龄儿童的母亲决定如何确保生活和照顾孩子的景观，以及（ii）他们认为国家应该在促进提供托儿服务以支持工作父母方面发挥什么作用。本文对知识做出了两个创新性的贡献。首先，它指出了当代英国妇女在有偿就业和护理工作之间的协调方面存在着强烈的阶级差异。学术上占主导地位的一个半养家糊口的模式通常反映在中产阶级的生活方式中，但在这项研究中，对工薪阶层女性的分析购买力很小，因为她们更有可能在国家依赖的家庭中全职工作。我们必须了解女性劳动力参与的这些变化及其对阶级不平等的影响。第二，论文集中学术注意力在国家的作用，在社会再生产的全面扩张，通过在小学提供全面的儿童保育（早餐和课外俱乐部）。对父母态度的新见解表明，中产阶级妇女要求选择，并认为有权获得国家资助的儿童保育服务，这是劳动力女性化的基础。工人阶级妇女重视为他人提供服务，但害怕被迫使用儿童保育而不是在家做母亲。他们的回答揭示了对什么是妇女平等的不同理解，以及不同妇女实现这一目标的能力的明显差异。
Contemporary economic, political and social shifts in the Global North are reconfiguring the resolution of productive and reproductive labour. This paper explores how the emergence of the New Economy, the rolling out of the neoliberal state, and the professionalisation of parenting are transforming: (i) the landscape in which mothers with primary‐school‐aged children make decisions about how to secure a living and care for their children and (ii) what role they think the state should play in facilitating the provision of childcare to support working parenthood. The paper makes two innovative contributions to knowledge. First, it pinpoints strongly class‐differentiated changes in women's reconciliation of paid employment and caring work in contemporary Britain. The academically dominant one‐and‐a‐half breadwinner model is commonly reflected in middle‐class lifestyles, but has little analytical purchase for working‐class women in this study, as they are more likely to mother full‐time in state‐dependent family households. It is vital that we understand these changes in women's labour‐force participation and their implications for class inequality. Second, the paper concentrates academic attention on the sweeping expansion in the state's role in social reproduction through the provision of wraparound childcare (breakfast and afterschool clubs) in primary schools. Novel insights into parental attitudes reveal that middle‐class women demand choice and feel entitled to state‐sponsored childcare provision which underpins the feminisation of the labour force. Working‐class women value provision for others, but fear being coerced into using childcare instead of mothering in the home. Their responses reveal competing understandings of what counts as equality for women, and stark variations in different women's abilities to achieve this.