Laura Bunyan is assistant professor in residence at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.
Description
Chapter 1: Hiring Decisions: Employers Dilemmas Chapter 2: Pathways to Nanny Work: Education, Status and Employment Chapter 3: The Ties that Bind: Doing Gender and Expectations of Care Chapter 4: Gender and Power: Interactions in the Workplace and on the Homefront Chapter 5: Nanny Work: Hard Lessons Learned Conclusion, Implications, and Suggestions
Reviews
Modern Day Mary Poppins is an important book. Laura Bunyan takes the unique approach in studying nannies who share similar cultural and social capital to their employers. Dr. Bunyan discusses how societal pressures push parents to give their children additional advantages through the education and private lives of their nannies, while paying close attention to the contradictions of labor being valued and taken for granted that is inherent in the employer-employee relationship by focusing on gender, and class. This work has deep implications for how we understand privileged opportunities as well as the reproduction of competition. -- Tamara R. Mose, author of Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community