Childcare struggles, maternal workers and social reproduction.

These challenges are born of wanting to emphatically restate the material reality that it is women who do this so much of this work (Perrier notes in chapter two that 96% of paid childcare workers are women) whilst also ardently maintaining that it should not be work that is dominated by women or considered more appropriate for women. This is important when noting, as Perrier does, that the childcare that reproduces the next generation relies not only on households but workplaces, state funded welfare provision, commercial entities acting as childcare providers, unpaid family members, friends, and many others. Maud Perrier is an important contributor to the sociology of families and childcare and builds on over a decade of research in the areas of motherhood, social class, and feminist theory to produce this much anticipated manuscript, "Childcare Struggles, Maternal Workers and Social Reproduction" (Perrier, [9]). [Extracted from the article]