Provision of Daycare Service in a Swedish Rural Area Background and the First Attempt

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オオタ, ミホ

Ota, Miho

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

積極的労働市場政策

協同組合

保育サービス

地域発展活動

Swedish welfare state

active labour market policy

ooperative

day care service

community development activity

ln which sense can cooperative daycare centers be present as an alternative to the Swedish welfare system? This is a question that shall be resolved in this paper. ln this paper a parents-cooperative， Hungegården, shall be examined. It has been in a sparsely-populated village in Sweden since 1985. In contrast to the situation in towns and cities where population and industry had been concentrated， municipal daycare services were difficult of access for inhabitants in a rural area. Some parents began to prepare to organize some sort of child welfare in the village, because no one could search/get job without it. It was also getting harder and harder to live with one income a family even in rural areas. This attempt to have a daycare center in the village did not only provide child welfare to the parents, but also lead to a revitalization of the village. The attempt made it possible to give a basis for life which had been undermined under active labour market policies after WWII, by mobilizing resources inherited in the local area. An implication of the provision of daycare service by a parents-cooperative is that inhabitants introduced a rational strategy at a local level instead of a national level to pursuit both economical prosperity and welfare.