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Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface and acknowledgements
  3. 1. Introduction: politics, profits and practices in child and aged care
    Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher
  4. References
  5. 2. The political economy of for-profit paid care: theory and evidence
    Gabrielle Meagher and Natasha Cortis
  6. Mapping the territory
  7. Profit and care: arguments for and against
  8. Arguments for for-profit paid care
  9. Arguments against for-profit paid care
  10. Arguments that for-profit status doesn’t matter
  11. Evidence from social care systems
  12. Residential aged care
  13. Child care
  14. Home care for the elderly and people with disabilities
  15. Taking stock
  16. References
  17. 3. For-profit organisations in managed markets for human services
    Bob Davidson
  18. Human services
  19. Managed markets
  20. Forms of managed markets iv
  21. For-profit organisations
  22. For-profit organisations in managed markets for human services
  23. Incentives for entry
  24. Barriers to entry
  25. Entry and market type
  26. Market power
  27. The effect of history, politics, and place
  28. Contract failure theory
  29. Relational approaches in regulating entry
  30. A future scenario?
  31. Conclusion
  32. References
  33. 4. Outsourcing of elder care services in Sweden: effects on work environment and political legitimacy
    Rolf Å Gustafsson and Marta Szebehely
  34. The context of the study
  35. New public management in Swedish elder care
  36. Social infrastructure and public employers
  37. Working in Swedish elder care: a case study
  38. Private and public employment and the psychosocial work environment
  39. Perceptions of local politicians in purchaser-provider systems
  40. Who wants more outsourced elder care?
  41. Summary and conclusions
  42. Work environment
  43. Political control v
  44. Opinions for and against outsourcing
  45. Internal legitimacy and social infrastructure
  46. References
  47. Appendix
  48. 5. Caring for profit? The impact of for-profit providers on the quality of employment in paid care
    Debra King and Bill Martin
  49. Caring for-profit? Or caring for profit?
  50. The data
  51. Working in aged care
  52. The workplace: flexibility and the staffing mix
  53. The work: caring for residents
  54. The workers: attitudes, opinions and job satisfaction
  55. Does ownership type really matter?
  56. References
  57. 6. Blurred boundaries: how paid careworkers and care managers negotiate work relationships
    Jane Mears
  58. Paid careworkers in Australia
  59. What do we know of the experiences of careworkers?
  60. The research project: method and participants
  61. The research project: results
  62. Providing good care
  63. Transcending boundaries
  64. Care managers’ perspectives
  65. Careworkers’ perspectives
  66. Points of tension between managers and careworkers
  67. The role of policies and guidelines vi
  68. Conclusion
  69. References
  70. 7. Parents as consumers of early childhood education and care: the feasibility of demand-led improvements to quality
    Jennifer Sumsion and Joy Goodfellow
  71. Market rationality, imperfections and intervention mechanisms
  72. Demand- and supply-side imperfections
  73. Demand- and supply-side intervention mechanisms
  74. The feasibility of demand-led improvements to quality
  75. Developing the typology: an explanatory note
  76. A. Parents as uninformed, undiscerning consumers, focused on private benefits with limited agency/power
  77. B. Parents as potentially informed and discerning consumers, focused on private benefits with some agency/power
  78. C. Parents as informed, discerning, community-focused consumers with considerable agency/power
  79. D. Parents as informed, discerning consumers, focused on private benefits with considerable agency/power
  80. E. Parents as informed, discerning, activist citizen-consumers, focused on social benefits with considerable agency/power
  81. Concluding thoughts
  82. References
  83. 8. Improving quality in Australian child care: the role of the media and non-profit providers
    Bronwen Dalton and Rachel Wilson      vii
  84. Evaluating child care: quality versus quantity measures
  85. The child care quality assurance regime in Australia
  86. Factors influencing parental decisions about child care
  87. The role of the media in influencing parental understandings of quality child care
  88. Content analysis of media coverage of child care
  89. Method
  90. Analysis
  91. Results
  92. Discussion of findings
  93. Improving quality in Australian child care: the role of non-profit providers
  94. From service providers to advocates? Strategies for making an impact
  95. Strategic communication
  96. Conclusion
  97. References
  98. 9. The giant in the playground: investigating the reach and implications of the corporatisation of child care provision
    Frances Press and Christine Woodrow
  99. Prologue
  100. Introduction
  101. Market domination
  102. Interrelationships
  103. Professional identity
  104. Curriculum
  105. Policy impact
  106. Conclusion
  107. References
  108. About the authors
  109. Copyright

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