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Being "Fun" at Work: Emotional Labour, Class, Gender and Childcare
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Vincent, Carol; Braun, Annette – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
This paper reports on data drawn from an "Economic and Social Research Council"-funded project investigating the experiences of UK-based students training on level-2 and level-3 childcare courses. We focus on the concept of emotional labour in relation to learning to care for and educate young children and the ways in which the students'…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Class, Child Care Occupations, Child Care
Between the Estate and the State: Struggling to Be a "Good" Mother
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Vincent, Carol; Ball, Stephen J.; Braun, Annette – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2010
The paper draws on an ESRC-funded study of 70 families in two London locations. It focuses on a set of contemporary and contradictory political discourses that work on and through the lives of working-class mothers and thereby create tensions and impossibilities within their lives. We illustrate the ways in which these women are positioned by and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employed Women, Mothers, Working Class
"I'm so Much More Myself Now, Coming Back to Work"--Working Class Mothers, Paid Work and Childcare
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Braun, Annette; Vincent, Carol; Ball, Stephen J. – Journal of Education Policy, 2008
This paper explores the ways in which working class mothers negotiate mothering and paid work. Drawing on interviews with 70 families with pre-school children, we examine how caring and working responsibilities are conceptualised and presented in mothers' narratives. Mothers showed a high degree of commitment to paid work and, in contrast to…
Descriptors: Working Class, Middle Class, Mothers, Family Work Relationship