The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market

The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: An Intorduction; A.T.Kjørholt PART I:THE LABOUR MARKET AND INSTITUTIONALISATION OF THE MODERN CHILDHOOD: A HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Dilemmas over Childcare inNorway, Sweden and West Germany after 1945; T.Korsvold Child Care Policies at a Crossroads: The Case of Iceland; G.B.Eydal Free Choice or Gentle Force? How can Parental Leave Change Gender Practices?; B.Brandth & E.Kvande 'Flexible Flexibility': Norwegian Politics of Daycar; M.Rantalaiho Kindergartens in Denmark - Reflections on Continuity and Change; E.Gulløv PART II: FLEXIBLE SPACES, FLEXIBLE CHILDREN? CONTEMPORARY POLICY AND PRACTICE 'Child-Centredness' and 'The Child': The Cultural Politics of Nursery Schooling in England; A.James Governed Markets and Democratic Experimentalism: Two Possibilites for Early Childhood Education and Care; P. Moss Daycare, Flexible Workers and the Combination of Work and Childcare; B.Johansen The Kindergarten as a Bazaar: Freedom of Choice and New Forms of Regulation; A.T.Kjørholt & M.Seland Children's Sense of Place: Aspects of Individualization, Flexibility and Free Choice within Preschool COtnext; G.Hallden Flexible Spaces - Flexible subjects in 'Nature': Transcending the 'Fenced' Childhood in Day Care Centres?; R.D.Nilsen Policies of Early Childhood Education and Care: Partnership, Individualisation; H.Strandell PART III: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS Users and Interested Parties: A Concluding Essay on Children's Insitutionalization; J. Qvortrup Childhood and Social Investments: Concluding Thoughts; A.T.Kjørholt and J.Qvortrup Index