Cover -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market: An Introduction -- Part I: The Labour Market and Institutionalization of Modern Childhood: Historical and Comparative Perspectives -- 1 Dilemmas over Childcare in Norway, Sweden and West Germany after 1945 -- 2 Childcare Policies at a Crossroads: The Case of Iceland -- 3 Free Choice or Gentle Force? How Can Parental Leave Change Gender Practices? -- 4 'Flexible Flexibility': Norwegian Politics of Daycare -- 5 Kindergartens in Denmark - Reflections on Continuity and Change -- Part II: Flexible Spaces, Flexible Children? Contemporary Policy and Practice -- 6 'Child-Centredness' and 'the Child': The Cultural Politics of Nursery Schooling in England -- 7 Governed Markets and Democratic Experimentalism: Two Possibilities for Early Childhood Education and Care -- 8 Daycare, Flexible Workers and the Combination of Work and Childcare -- 9 Kindergarten as a Bazaar: Freedom of Choice and New Forms of Regulation -- 10 Children's Sense of Place: Aspects of Individualization, Flexibility and Free Choice within the Preschool Context -- 11 Flexible Spaces - Flexible Subjects in 'Nature': Transcending the 'Fenced' Childhood in Daycare Centres? -- 12 Policies of Early Childhood Education and Care: Partnership and Individualization -- Part III: Concluding Thoughts -- 13 Users and Interested Parties: A Concluding Essay on Children's Institutionalization -- 14 Childhood and Social Investments: Concluding Thoughts -- Index.

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