1. Objectifs

Intentions :
« The overall goal of this study was to assess the impact of $5/day ($7) childcare at the community and interpersonal levels using qualitative interviews with mothers and childcare providers living in a community on the Quebec/Ontario border. » (p. 130)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«I interviewed 16 mothers and 17 childcare providers. » (p. 130)

Instruments :
- Guide d’entretien
- Questionnaire socio-démographique

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse de contenu

3. Résumé

« The childcare providers I interviewed worked long hours doing ‘energy-sapping’ physical and emotional labour, often providing temporary and unreciprocated ‘motherly love’, for relatively little pay [...] Ironically, some of these childcare providers felt their work was unrecognized and undervalued by mothers, who themselves struggled to balance (under)paid care work (as nurses, personal care workers, and other service workers) and their own largely invisible and undervalued unpaid housework and care work [...] In other words, some, like Schopenhauer 200 years earlier, continue to fail to see care, in general, and childcare in particular, as a process, or, more profoundly, a species activity—part of a complex, life-sustaining web. Until this changes we risk failing to recognize the overall public value associated with care. » (p. 137)