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Entrepreneurship and institution-building in the case of childminding

Greener, I.

Authors

I. Greener



Abstract

This article considers institution-building by 'childminder organizers' who rearranged local childminding services away from state-imposed, market-based relationships into localized co-operative arrangements instead. It explores how, through the introduction and enforcement of unified pay and conditions and of a childminding brokering system, institutions for establishing norms of practice were established. It shows how childminder organizers deployed social capital to reform local childminding institutions, even though they appeared to have little from their introduction, and how the new institutions structured relationships between childminders within them.

Citation

Greener, I. (2009). Entrepreneurship and institution-building in the case of childminding. Work, Employment and Society, 23(2), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017009102860

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jun 1, 2009
Deposit Date Mar 18, 2010
Journal Work, Employment and Society
Print ISSN 0950-0170
Electronic ISSN 1469-8722
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 23
Issue 2
Pages 305-322
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017009102860
Keywords Childcare, Childminding, Entrepreneurship, Network, Professions.

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