An informal survey of child care workers

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Myer
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Child Care Workers ◽  
Care Workers

Child care workers’ perception of job worth

1991 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Davey Zeece ◽  
Robert W. Fuqua
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Child Care Workers ◽  
Care Workers

Selection and Training of Child-Care Workers

1969 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 227-229
Author(s):  
John B. Mordock ◽  
Henry Platt
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Child Care Workers ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
And Training

US SETS RULES ON AU PAIRS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 663-663
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Clinton Administration ◽  
Infant Care ◽  
Child Care Workers ◽  
College Credit ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Au Pairs

The Clinton Administration issued new regulations today for the nation's 10,000 foreign in-home child-care workers that set new standards for those who care for children under 2 years old. ... the rules also require families employing the au pairs to pay them a weekly stipend of $115, up from the current $100 ...the agency will require that an au pair caring for children have at least 6 months' experience or training in infant care ... The new regulations bar au pairs from caring for children under 3 months old. To reinforce the educational aspects of the program, the regulations require au pairs to take at least 6 hours of college credit courses. Families must pay up to $500 for education for an au pair ...

Counter-professionalization as an occupational status strategy: The production of professionalism in Israeli child-care workers’ identity work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Netta Avnoon ◽  
Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Community Dynamics ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Child Care Workers ◽  
Unskilled Labor ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Professional Self

Abstract Recent approaches to professions and professional identity question the premise that professionalization is the ultimate generator of status, showing that the classical model of professionalization does not always coincide with workers’ creative construction of professionalism and professional dignity. Extending these approaches, and focusing on workers’ identity discourse, this study examines how private child-care workers in Israel claim professional status precisely by avoiding formal professionalization and promoting a counter-professionalization ethos. Drawing on field observations and interviews, we analyze nannies’ tacit occupational community dynamics, by which they establish professional rules and boundaries and discursively construct a respected professional self. Their identity-talk reveals a vocational self-imaging based on personal charisma, one that resists training and credentials. This vocational self-imaging allows rebuttal of the nanny stereotype as a low-class uneducated workforce, associated with their ethnicized backgrounds, by symbolically transforming it and using it as a high-value identity resource. This counter-professionalized identity-talk prevails despite the social distinction between senior and junior nannies. Thereby, nannies gain professional status while the professionalization of child care is rejected. The analysis of these cultural dynamics provides a stronger perspective on professions as spheres of identity construction—specifically those ranked lower as unskilled labor—and on workers’ agency behind their ostensibly passive compliance with under-professionalization.

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