The nursery workspace, emotional labour and contested understandings of commoditised childcare in the contemporary UK1

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 517-540

  Boyer, Kate ^a   Reimer, Suzanne ^a   Irvine, Lauren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

affective practice; care work; childcare; commoditised care; day nurseries; emotional labour

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; LABOR; WORKPLACE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84881647325     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2012.710913     Document Type: Article

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