Mary C Tuominen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4409816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary C Tuominen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary C |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuominen |
| SIGNATURE | TUOMINEN M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth
There Was No Money Left to Save”: Financial Literacy and the Lives of Low-Income People
Despite the popularity of financial literacy programs intended to benefit low-income families, little research explores how families experience and interpret their own participation in these programs. In-depth interviews with participants in one such program revealed participants’ complex analyses of financial literacy and their own poverty. Their analyses simultaneously affirm and challenge hegemonic ideologies and neoliberal practices and, as s…
The Right and Responsibility to Care: Oppositional Consciousness Among Family Child Care Providers of Color
This participatory action research project reveals how family child care providers of color use oppositional consciousness to claim the right to increased social recognition and economic reward in their employment. By identifying their child care as skilled labor, providers of color both use and subvert market ideologies that historically devalue their labor. Simultaneously, African American providers overtly contest market ideologies of self‐int…
The Child Care Problem: An Economic Analysis
Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth
1. Introduction to the Volume Section I: Re-Thinking Family Care Work 2. Almost Worried to Death: Commonalities and Dividions among American Women Caring for Children, 1850-1940 3. Stratification and Care Work: The Case of mothers 4. Comrades en el Barrio: the cultural Practice of Co-Mothering in a Rural Paraguyan Neighborhood 5. Nurturing Babies, Protecting Men: The dynamics of Women's Post-Partum Caregiving Practices 5. Developing non-Oppressiv…
Inside the Household: From Labour to Care
List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: From Labour to Care The' Family Wage': Some Problems for Socialists and Feminists M.Barrett & M.McIntosh Women's Domestic Labour J.Gardiner, S.Himmelweit & M.Macintosh Capital Restructuring and the Domestic Economy: A Marxist Alternative to Materialism J.Wheelock Domestic Labour and Employment Status Among Married Couples: A Case-study in Hartlepool L.Morris Domestic Labour Revisi…
Tenuous Relationships: Exploitation, Emotion, and Racial Ethnic Significance in Paid Child Care Work
The relatively recent shift of family caregiving to the public market of service work raises questions about how to theorize paid caregiving. This article examines how to conceptualize child rearing when it is transferred to a paid worker. The gendered character of commodified caregiving is complicated by structural locations of race and class that define the employer-employee relationship. Previous discussions of paid child care work as emotiona…
Motherhood and the Market: Mothering and Employment Opportunities among Mexicana, African-American and Euro-American Family Day Care Workers
While previous research identifies the ideology of the full-time, at-home mother as a primary force that influences women's entry into family day care work, this study reveals a more complex relationship between motherhood and women's paid labor. This study is based on field research including in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 16 family day care workers of diverse racial / ethnic, cultural and class backgrounds (African-American, Mexicana…
Exploitation or Opportunity: The Contradictions of Child-Care Policy in the Contemporary United States
This analysis reveals the complex and contradictory role of the state in the provision of paid child care for low-income parents, in this study, I elucidate the processes that create a pool of labor for the work of state-subsidized, home-based child care. Intersecting forces of gender, cultural and racial/ethnic identity, and class relations influence women's daily lives and opportunities. Together, these forces shape women's commitment to mother…
Exploitation or opportunity? The contradictions of child-care policy in the contemporary United States
The Hidden Organization of Labor: Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Child-Care Work in the Formal and Informal Economy
While extensive studies document the need for child care in the United States, little has been done to explore the organization of child-care work or its political economic context. The article explores, both empirically and theoretically, the organization of child-care work in the United States. While formal child-care centers emerged as the fastest-growing source of child care for employed parents in the last 25 years, informal arrangements con…
Gender, Class, and Motherhood: The Legacy of Federal Child Care Policy
The full-time at-home mother is a historically and politically constructed "ideal type" in the United States. Federal child care policies historically reinforced middle-class women's roles as full-time at-home mothers and stigmatized federal child care programs as charity services for poor, ethnic, and immigrant women. Despite its persistence, the ideology of the middle-class mother conflicts with the historical and contemporary reality of women'…
Caring for Profit: The Social, Economic, and Political Significance of For-Profit Child Care
Between 1965 and 1985, for-profit centers and chains emerged as the fastest growing source of child care in the United States. Economic transitions, changes in work performed by women, the emergence of the New Right, and federal policies of privatization all created a favorable climate for the growth of for-profit care. Large chains providing child-care services now predict an extended period of corporate growth and profits. In contrast, lower-in…
Tenuous Relationships: Exploitation, Emotion, and Racial Ethnic Significance in Paid Child Care Work
The relatively recent shift of family caregiving to the public market of service work raises questions about how to theorize paid caregiving. This article examines how to conceptualize child rearing when it is transferred to a paid worker. The gendered character of commodified caregiving is complicated by structural locations of race and class that define the employer-employee relationship. Previous discussions of paid child care work as emotiona…
The Hidden Organization of Labor: Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Child-Care Work in the Formal and Informal Economy
While extensive studies document the need for child care in the United States, little has been done to explore the organization of child-care work or its political economic context. The article explores, both empirically and theoretically, the organization of child-care work in the United States. While formal child-care centers emerged as the fastest-growing source of child care for employed parents in the last 25 years, informal arrangements con…
Caring for Profit: The Social, Economic, and Political Significance of For-Profit Child Care
Between 1965 and 1985, for-profit centers and chains emerged as the fastest growing source of child care in the United States. Economic transitions, changes in work performed by women, the emergence of the New Right, and federal policies of privatization all created a favorable climate for the growth of for-profit care. Large chains providing child-care services now predict an extended period of corporate growth and profits. In contrast, lower-in…
The Right and Responsibility to Care: Oppositional Consciousness Among Family Child Care Providers of Color
This participatory action research project reveals how family child care providers of color use oppositional consciousness to claim the right to increased social recognition and economic reward in their employment. By identifying their child care as skilled labor, providers of color both use and subvert market ideologies that historically devalue their labor. Simultaneously, African American providers overtly contest market ideologies of self‐int…
Motherhood and the Market: Mothering and Employment Opportunities among Mexicana, African-American and Euro-American Family Day Care Workers
While previous research identifies the ideology of the full-time, at-home mother as a primary force that influences women's entry into family day care work, this study reveals a more complex relationship between motherhood and women's paid labor. This study is based on field research including in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 16 family day care workers of diverse racial / ethnic, cultural and class backgrounds (African-American, Mexicana…
The Child Care Problem: An Economic Analysis
Gender, Class, and Motherhood: The Legacy of Federal Child Care Policy
The full-time at-home mother is a historically and politically constructed "ideal type" in the United States. Federal child care policies historically reinforced middle-class women's roles as full-time at-home mothers and stigmatized federal child care programs as charity services for poor, ethnic, and immigrant women. Despite its persistence, the ideology of the middle-class mother conflicts with the historical and contemporary reality of women'…
There Was No Money Left to Save”: Financial Literacy and the Lives of Low-Income People
Despite the popularity of financial literacy programs intended to benefit low-income families, little research explores how families experience and interpret their own participation in these programs. In-depth interviews with participants in one such program revealed participants’ complex analyses of financial literacy and their own poverty. Their analyses simultaneously affirm and challenge hegemonic ideologies and neoliberal practices and, as s…
Caring for Profit: The Social, Economic, and Political Significance of For-Profit Child Care
Between 1965 and 1985, for-profit centers and chains emerged as the fastest growing source of child care in the United States. Economic transitions, changes in work performed by women, the emergence of the New Right, and federal policies of privatization all created a favorable climate for the growth of for-profit care. Large chains providing child-care services now predict an extended period of corporate growth and profits. In contrast, lower-in…
Gender, Class, and Motherhood: The Legacy of Federal Child Care Policy
The full-time at-home mother is a historically and politically constructed "ideal type" in the United States. Federal child care policies historically reinforced middle-class women's roles as full-time at-home mothers and stigmatized federal child care programs as charity services for poor, ethnic, and immigrant women. Despite its persistence, the ideology of the middle-class mother conflicts with the historical and contemporary reality of women'…
The Hidden Organization of Labor: Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Child-Care Work in the Formal and Informal Economy
While extensive studies document the need for child care in the United States, little has been done to explore the organization of child-care work or its political economic context. The article explores, both empirically and theoretically, the organization of child-care work in the United States. While formal child-care centers emerged as the fastest-growing source of child care for employed parents in the last 25 years, informal arrangements con…
Exploitation or Opportunity: The Contradictions of Child-Care Policy in the Contemporary United States
This analysis reveals the complex and contradictory role of the state in the provision of paid child care for low-income parents, in this study, I elucidate the processes that create a pool of labor for the work of state-subsidized, home-based child care. Intersecting forces of gender, cultural and racial/ethnic identity, and class relations influence women's daily lives and opportunities. Together, these forces shape women's commitment to mother…
Exploitation or opportunity? The contradictions of child-care policy in the contemporary United States
Motherhood and the Market: Mothering and Employment Opportunities among Mexicana, African-American and Euro-American Family Day Care Workers
While previous research identifies the ideology of the full-time, at-home mother as a primary force that influences women's entry into family day care work, this study reveals a more complex relationship between motherhood and women's paid labor. This study is based on field research including in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 16 family day care workers of diverse racial / ethnic, cultural and class backgrounds (African-American, Mexicana…
Tenuous Relationships: Exploitation, Emotion, and Racial Ethnic Significance in Paid Child Care Work
The relatively recent shift of family caregiving to the public market of service work raises questions about how to theorize paid caregiving. This article examines how to conceptualize child rearing when it is transferred to a paid worker. The gendered character of commodified caregiving is complicated by structural locations of race and class that define the employer-employee relationship. Previous discussions of paid child care work as emotiona…
Inside the Household: From Labour to Care
List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: From Labour to Care The' Family Wage': Some Problems for Socialists and Feminists M.Barrett & M.McIntosh Women's Domestic Labour J.Gardiner, S.Himmelweit & M.Macintosh Capital Restructuring and the Domestic Economy: A Marxist Alternative to Materialism J.Wheelock Domestic Labour and Employment Status Among Married Couples: A Case-study in Hartlepool L.Morris Domestic Labour Revisi…
Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth
1. Introduction to the Volume Section I: Re-Thinking Family Care Work 2. Almost Worried to Death: Commonalities and Dividions among American Women Caring for Children, 1850-1940 3. Stratification and Care Work: The Case of mothers 4. Comrades en el Barrio: the cultural Practice of Co-Mothering in a Rural Paraguyan Neighborhood 5. Nurturing Babies, Protecting Men: The dynamics of Women's Post-Partum Caregiving Practices 5. Developing non-Oppressiv…
The Child Care Problem: An Economic Analysis
The Right and Responsibility to Care: Oppositional Consciousness Among Family Child Care Providers of Color
This participatory action research project reveals how family child care providers of color use oppositional consciousness to claim the right to increased social recognition and economic reward in their employment. By identifying their child care as skilled labor, providers of color both use and subvert market ideologies that historically devalue their labor. Simultaneously, African American providers overtly contest market ideologies of self‐int…
There Was No Money Left to Save”: Financial Literacy and the Lives of Low-Income People
Despite the popularity of financial literacy programs intended to benefit low-income families, little research explores how families experience and interpret their own participation in these programs. In-depth interviews with participants in one such program revealed participants’ complex analyses of financial literacy and their own poverty. Their analyses simultaneously affirm and challenge hegemonic ideologies and neoliberal practices and, as s…
Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth
Sociology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Ideology (5 works) · Care work (4 works)