Klappentext Natalie M. Fousekis is an associate professor of history and the director of the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University! Fullerton. Zusammenfassung Helps to explain the barriers to a publically funded comprehensive child care program in the United States.

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Helps to explain the barriers to a publically funded comprehensive child care program in the United States.

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CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART 1. WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH1. Californians Secure Wartime Child Care2. Postwar Hopes: The Fight for Permanent Child Care, 1945-47PART 2. MOBILIZING DURING THE COLD WAR3. Child Care "Is a State Problem": Working Mothers and Educators Take Action, 1947-514. "We Need to Stand Together": Theresa Mahler, Mary Young, and the Coalition's Victory in the 1950sPART 3. THE WAR ON POVERTY AND THE AGE OF PROTEST5. "We Do Not Consider Ourselves Welfare Cases": Education-based Child Care and Low-income Working Families, 1958-656, A Different Kind of Welfare State: California's Child Care Coalition in the Age of Protest, 1966-71ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex