The Contribution of Childcare to Local Employment: Poor Work or Work for the Poor?

Gill Scott, Jim Campbell and Usha Brown
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Gill Scott: Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Email: J.M.Scott@gcal.ac.uk, Tel: 0141 331 3493.
Jim Campbell: Director, Scottish Trade Union Research Unit, Department of Economics and Enterprise, Email: J.Campbell@gcal.ac.uk.
Usha Brown: Research Fellow, Scottish Poverty Information Unit, Email: U.Brown@gcal.ac.uk They are all at Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, GlasgowG4OBA.

Local Economy, 2001, vol. 16, issue 3, 187-197

Abstract: In recent years local economic development and regeneration agencies have begun to examine how locally based childcare can contribute to economic and social regeneration. This paper is based on current research by the authors and reports on the expectation s and current realities of community based childcare as part of an economic regeneration strategy. It suggests that whilst the incorporation of childcare into urban regeneration strategy holds the potential to reduce the barriers to labour market involvement by mothers in low income households, less positive effects are also identiable. Early evaluation is used to show that the commodification of care within urban regeneration policies reinforces care work as low paid, insecure gendered employment. It concludes by arguing that a more critical evaluation of both the economic an d social impact of childcare on area regeneration is necessary.

Date: 2001
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