Where are our children most at risk? Surprisingly, considering its bad reputation, bureaucracy helps protect them.
References
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CharlesL. Bosk. “Continuity and Change in the Study of Medical Error: The Culture of Safety on the Shop Floor.” Occasional Paper, School of Social Science. Princeton, NJ: Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved June 15, 2005, from (http://www.sss.ias.edu/publications/papers/paper20.pdf). An overview of how work cultures affect mistakes in medical settings; while not directly relevant to child care, it has theoretical and practical implications for the analysis of “mistakes” and caregiving failures in human services.
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WilliamT. GormleyJr.Everybody's Children: Child Care as a Public Problem (Brookings Institution Press, 1995). An excellent account by a policy expert of why it is hard to regulate child care and ensure high quality in the American political context.
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SuzanneW. HelburnBarbaraR. Bergmann.America's Child Care Problem: The Way Out (Palgrave, 2002). A concise and informative look at child care problems in America, including low quality, lack of regulation, and limited supply.
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EverettC. Hughes. “Mistakes at Work.” In The Sociological Eye: Selected Papers, ed. EverettC. Hughes (Aldine-Atherton, 1971). A brief but classic statement of how mistakes occur and are covered up in many work settings.
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The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. “Child-Care Providers.” Promotes awareness of shaken-baby risks; covers relationships between child care providers and parents. http://www.dontshake.com.
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DianeVaughan. “The Dark Side of Organizations: Mistakes, Misconduct, and Disaster.” Annual Review of Sociology25 (1999): 271–305. Focuses on the dark side of organizations, while our analysis points to some of their protective features in the human services.
