List of Tables, Figures, and Illustrations
Preface
Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, Karen Hagemann, and Konrad H. Jarausch
Part I: Introduction: Time Policy - A New Approach for the Comparative Analysis of Childcare and Education
Chapter 1. Children, Families, and States: Time Policies of Childcare and Schooling in a Comparative Historical Perspective
Karen Hagemann, Konrad H. Jarausch, and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda
Chapter 2. The Politics of Time: Comparing and Explaining Current Work-Family Policies - Theoretical and Methodological Reflections
Kimberly J. Morgan
Part II: Background and Context: Family Policies in Comparison
Chapter 3. Family Law and Gender Equality: Comparing Family Policies in Postwar Western Europe
Ute Gerhard
Chapter 4. From Equality to Difference? Comparing Gendered Family Policies in Post-1945 Eastern Europe
Jacqueline Heinen
Chapter 5. Family Policies and Birth Rates: Childbearing, Female Work, and the Time Policy of Early Childhood Education in Postwar Europe
Livia Sz. Oláh
Part III: Case Studies: Time Policies of Childcare, Preschool and Primary Education in Europe
A. All-Day Childcare and Education Systems in Western Europe
Chapter 6. The Best Interest of the Child: Early Childhood Education in Norway and Sweden since 1945
Tora Korsvold
Chapter 7. The Scandinavian Model: The Time Policy of Primary Education in Twentieth-Century Sweden
Lisbeth Lundahl
Chapter 8. Continuities and Changes - Tensions and Ambiguities: Childcare and Preschool
Policies in France
Jeanne Fagnani
Chapter 9. Contrasting Policies of All-day Education: Primary Schools in France and Italy since 1945
Cristina Allemann-Ghionda
Chapter 10. (Pre)School is not Childcare: Preschool and Primary Education Policies in Spain since the 1930s
Celia Valiente
Chapter 11. From Weak Social Democracy to Hybridized Neo-liberalism: Early Childhood Education in Britain since 1945
Kevin J. Brehony and Kristen D. Nawrotzki
Chapter 12. Gender, Class, and Schooling: Education Policy, School Time, and Labor Market in Post-1945 Britain
Sally Tomlinson
B. Part-Time Pre- and Primary School Systems with Additional Childcare in West-Central Europe
Chapter 13. A West-German "Sonderweg"? Family, Work, and the Half-Day Time Policy of Childcare and Schooling
Karen Hagemann
Chapter 14. From Part-Time to All-Day? Time Policies in the Swiss Childcare, Pre- and Primary School System since 1945
Claudia Crotti
C. All-Day Childcare and Part-Time Pre- and Primary School Systems in Eastern Europe
Chapter 15. Beyond Ideology: The Time Policy of Russian School Education since 1945
Anatoli Rakhkochkine
Chapter 16. Economy and Politics: The Time Policy of the East German Childcare and Primary School System
Monika Mattes
Chapter 17. Tradition Matters: Childcare, Preschool and Primary Education in Modern Hungary
Dorottya Szikra
Chapter 18. Female Employment, Population Policy, and Childcare: Early Childhood Education in Post-1945 Czech Society
Hana HaSková
Notes on Contributors
Index
