The aim of this contribution to the debates section is to raise some research and policy questions about childcare which has become a key policy issue for the British Government. Childcare currently is a central plank of both the economic efficiency and the social exclusion agenda, as...

This paper does three things. First it reviews the existing conceptual work on the expansionary strategies of producer services and argues that while illuminating it has paid insufficient attention to the implications of the internationalization/diversification of temporary staffing agencies,...