Meaning of Commodification for Child Care Workers

What is it about?

hroughout this research I have tried to answer the following questions: What does paid/commodified child care mean for child minders and work relations; what features are transferred to paid care work from familial relations and what are their impacts; and how does the job to be performed in a private sphere influence the nature of the work? This study is based on in-depth interviews conducted with 19 child minders in the capital city of Turkey, Ankara.

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Why is it important?

this study contributes to existing literature by means of shifting the central point of child care work from immigrant women to local ones, displaying the negotiation power of the workers, presenting the effect of the structure of the labor market on the dynamics and commodification of child care in the private sphere in Turkey.