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As most child care staff are painfully aware, working conditions in the field leave much room for improvement. Low wages, minimal benefits and unpaid overtime contibute to staff burnout and rapid turnover. What's more, as serious as these conditions are, they do not represent the whole story.
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Marcy Whitebook is coordinator of the Child Care Employee Project. Gerri Ginsberg is consultant to the Project. The photographs are from the Project's postcard series, sold to raise funds for free services to child care staff.
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Whitebook, M., Ginsburg, G. Warning: Child care work may be hazardous to your health. Early Childhood Educ J 11, 22–27 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01616873
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01616873