|aDemanding child care : |bwomen's activism and the politics of welfare, 1940-71 /|cNatalie M. Fousekis.
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|aUrbana, Chicago ;|aSpringfield :|bUniversity of Illinois Press,|cc2011.
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|axiv, 245 p. :|bill. ;|c25 cm.
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|aWomen in American history
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-236) and index.
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|aCalifornians secure wartime child care -- Postwar hopes: the fight for permanent child care, 1945-47 -- Child care "is a state problem": working mothers and educators take action, 1947-51 -- "We need to stand together": Theresa Mahler, Mary Young, and the coalition's victory in the 1950s -- "We do not consider ourselves welfare cases": education-based child care and low-income working families, 1958-65 -- A different kind of welfare state: California's child care coalition in the age of protest, 1966-71.
Analyzing the informal networks of cross-class and cross-race reformers, policymakers, and educators, Demanding Child Care: Women's Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940–1971 traces the rapidly changing alliances among these groups.