Cameron Lynne Macdonald

Biographic Data

ID238493
NAMECameron Lynne Macdonald
GIVEN NAMESCameron Lynne
FAMILY NAMEMacdonald
SIGNATUREMACDONALD C L
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX2

  • Shadow MothersNannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering

    Cameron Lynne MacdonaldBOOKShadow Mothers: Nannies, Au…2011

    This book shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the “shadow mothers” they hire. This book illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Based on in-depth interviews with professional women and childcare providers—immigrant and American-born nannies as well as European au pairs—th…

  • Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering

    Cameron Lynne MacdonaldBOOKShadow Mothers2011

    Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Based on in-depth interviews with professional women and childcare providers— immigrant and American-born nannies as well as …

  • Life Without Father: Single Mothers in the New America

    Open AccessCameron Lynne MacdonaldARTICLEQualitative Sociology2008References: 1

  • It Shouldn't Have to Be A Trade”: Recognition and Redistribution in Care Work Advocacy

    Open AccessCameron Lynne Macdonald, David A MerrillARTICLEHypatia2002Cited by: 10References: 5

    Care work straddles the divide between activities performed out of love and those performed for pay. The tensions created for workers by this divide raise questions concerning connections between recognition and redistribution. Through an analysis of mobilization among childcare workers, we argue that care workers can address redistribution and recognition simultaneously through vocabularies of both skill and virtue. We conclude with a discussion…

  • It Shouldn't Have to Be A Trade: Recognition and Redistribution in Care Work Advocacy

    Open AccessCameron Lynne Macdonald, David A MerrillARTICLEHypatia2002Cited by: 2References: 5

  • Sociability and Gendered Spheres: Visiting Patterns in Nineteenth-Century New England

    Open AccessCameron Lynne Macdonald, Karen V HansenARTICLESocial Science History2001References: 6

    In her diary entry of 24 December 1862, Harriet Anne Severance, a domestic worker, detailed the activity surrounding the seasonal slaughter of hogs: “ It has been grease, grease all day, the hog is most taken care of. Henry,Meroa & I got started forMr. Henry’s this afternoon,Wells came after Henry overtook us at Uncle Chester’s, took him home with him, & Meroa and I went on had a good visit, & we have been to Mr. Child’s this evening.” While her …

  • Contemporary Parenting: Challenges and Issues

    Cameron Lynne Macdonald, Terry Arendell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1999

  • Working in the Service Society

    Annette Bernhardt, Cameron Lynne MacdonaldREVIEWIndustrial and Labor Relations…1998Cited by: 1

    Preface 1. Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni Part I: Management Control of the New Labor Process 2. Rethinking Questions of Control: Lessons from McDonald's Robin Leidner 3. Politics of Service Production: Route Sales Work in the Potato-Chip Industry Steven H. Lopez 4. Consumers' Reports: Management by Customers in a Changing Economy Linda Fuller and Vicki Smith 5. Service with a Smile…