The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market

BERIT BRANDTH Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway GUoNY BJORK EYDAL Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland, Iceland EVA GULLOV Associate Professor at the School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark GUNILLA HALDEN Professor in Child Studies at Linkoping University, Sweden ALLISON JAMES Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood & Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK BIRGITTE JOHANSEN PhD student at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway TORA KORSVOLD Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway ELIN KVANDE Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Norway PETER MOSS Professor at Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK RANDI DYBLIE NILSEN Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway MINNA RANTALAIHO Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway and the Nordic Gender Institute, Finland MONICA SELAND PhD student at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU, Norway HARRIET STRANDELL Docent and University Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Sweden

This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of the modern child's life.This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of the modern child's life.