Whether childcare is seen as part of society's educational policy, welfare policy, or employment policy affects not only its form and content but also its publi

This highly topical book presents recent, significant research from eight nations where childcare markets are the norm.

This timely book reveals how policies of childcare and early childhood education influence children’s circumstances and the daily lives of families with child

Taking a comparative perspective, this book casts new light on the changing inequalities in Europe.

countries in this region have been particularly limited (for an exception to this, see Petmesidou & Papatheodorou, 2006). The underlying assumption in this volu