The Legacy of Babysitting in America

In the 60s, babysitters increasingly in America were attempting to unionize. Babysitters also in the 60s are coming in and providing relief for women who perhaps would like to leave the home. So they're a very subversive figure in the 1960s. And so you can see why this would be a convenient time for there to be these stories about an older version of society that is losing ground to the new.