Alberta's Day Care Controversy:
From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond

[book cover] Alberta's Day Care Controversy

Tom Langford

January 2011
Paperback
978-1-926836-02-7 (SC)

$34.95

January 2011
Ebook
978-1-926836-03-4 (pdf)

978-1-926836-31-7 (epub)

Subject
Child Care / Labour Studies / Sociology / Western Canadian Studies

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Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province.

Alberta’s Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasis on policy decisions and program initiatives that have provoked considerable debate and struggle among citizens. For most of Alberta’s first fifty years as a province, day care was treated as a private rather than a public issue. Beginning in the late 1950s, however, debates about day care began to appear regularly on the public record. Dr. Tom Langford brings to light the public controversies that occurred during the last four decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the new millennium, placing contemporary issues in historical context and anticipating the elements of future policy struggles.

About the Author

Tom Langford is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on globalization, labour, and the politics of early learning and child care.

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