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Learning to Labor with Feeling: Class, Gender, and Emotion in Childcare Education and Training

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The words above arrived through my letterbox one day, blazoned across a leaflet for a private nursery nearby. While the purchase of education and care has come to seem commonplace in a world of privatized services, this offer promises something more deeply significant. Here, love itself—one of the most powerful and intimate of human emotions—is one of the products for sale, a distinctive part of the total childcare package.

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Colley, H. (2011). Learning to Labor with Feeling: Class, Gender, and Emotion in Childcare Education and Training. In: Jones, P.E. (eds) Marxism and Education. Marxism and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119864_3

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