Abstract

FOURNIER, Marisa. The task of community childcare workers in the suburbs of buenos aires: ¿a way of bottom up subsidy?. Trab. soc. [online]. 2017, n.28, pp.83-108. ISSN 1514-6871.

The insufficient public childcare services in relation with the challenges faced by new family structures and the need for more than one income in vulnerable families result in overcharging poor women. It also causes less incomes in poor homes since childcare is an obstacle to work outside the house. Some of childhood politics articulate with community organizations that have become childcare centers. These are collective centers with strong neighbor and family bonds where urban poor women get organized to face children needs. Firstly, these women fulfilled feeding needs and then they started to satisfy learning and recreational needs. They provide childcare services for their own children and other´s. The work focuses on the analysis of the situation of these childcare workers in these mixed institutions where the community logic is strongly connected with the principles of the Social and Solidarity Economy. This community logic also mixes with childhood politics in high vulnerable territories. The other topic presented in the article is the auto perception and appreciation that these workers have of their task. It also describes how collective childcare impacts their personal lives.

Keywords : Gender; Community childcare workers; Social and solidarity economy; Childcare politics; Feminism.

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