Since the 1980s, families across the developed West have lived through a revolution on a scale unprecedented since industrialization. With more mothers than ever before in paid work and the rise of the middle-class, dual-income household, we have entered a new era in the history of everyday life: the era of the working parent. In Inventing the Working Parent, Sarah E. Stoller charts the politics that shaped the creation of the phenomenon of working parenthood in Britain as it arose out of a new culture of work.
Stoller begins with the first sustained efforts by feminists to mobilize politically on behalf of working parents in the late 1970s and concludes in the context of an emerging national political agenda for working families with the rise of New Labour in the 1990s. She explores how and why the notion of working parenthood emerged as a powerful new political claim and identity category and addresses how feminists used the concept of working parenthood to advocate for new organizational policies and practices. Lastly, Stoller shows how neoliberal capitalism under Margaret Thatcher and subsequent New Labour governments made a family's ability to survive on one income nearly impossible—with significant consequences for individual experience, the gendered division of labor, and intimate life.
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Inventing the Working Parent
Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Who Cares? The Problem of Childcare for Working Parents
- 2 From Women’s Liberation to New Ways to Work: Feminist Labor Activism and the Making of Working Parenthood
- 3 From Equality to Diversity: Working Parents in the Public Sector
- 4 Making the Business Case: The Rise of the “Family-Friendly” Private Sector
- 5 Becoming a Working Parent: Labor Intensification and the Pursuit of “Having It All”
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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