Author:
Fousekis, Natalie Marie.
Imprint:Urbana, Chicago and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
Descriptionxiv, 245 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Californians secure wartime child care -- Postwar hopes: the fight for permanent child care, 1945-47 -- Child care "is a state problem": working mothers and educators take action, 1947-51 -- "We need to stand together": Theresa Mahler, Mary Young, and the coalition's victory in the 1950s -- "We do not consider ourselves welfare cases": education-based child care and low-income working families, 1958-65 -- A different kind of welfare state: California's child care coalition in the age of protest, 1966-71.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-236) and index.
