As Easy as ABC?: Learning to Organize Private Child Care Workers

Brown, T

As Easy as ABC?: Learning to Organize Private Child Care Workers

Brown, T

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Publisher:: SAGE Publications
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Labor Studies Journal, 2009, June, 34 (2), pp. 235 - 251
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Brown, T	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Labor Studies Journal, 2009, June, 34 (2), pp. 235 - 251	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0160-449X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10006
dc.description.abstract	This article examines the emergence of privatized child care in Australia and the efforts of one trade union to organize previously unorganized child care workers. The rapid growth of private child care delivery and the profits that are being generated are recent phenomena in Australia. The company that has emerged as the biggest provider is now expanding into the North American market and believes that its model is transferable into other human services areas, such as aged care. The article considers these developments in the context of the spread of precarious work and the new organizing methods being adopted by the child care workers' union to recruit members and establish their power within the industry.	en_US
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Labor Studies Journal	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/0160449X08317225	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Industrial Relations	en_US
dc.title	As Easy as ABC?: Learning to Organize Private Child Care Workers	en_US
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dc.location.activity	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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This article examines the emergence of privatized child care in Australia and the efforts of one trade union to organize previously unorganized child care workers. The rapid growth of private child care delivery and the profits that are being generated are recent phenomena in Australia. The company that has emerged as the biggest provider is now expanding into the North American market and believes that its model is transferable into other human services areas, such as aged care. The article considers these developments in the context of the spread of precarious work and the new organizing methods being adopted by the child care workers' union to recruit members and establish their power within the industry.

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