What role do childcare centres play in connecting their families to outside resources as well as each other? Can they significantly impact the well‐being of their families through these connections? Unanticipated Gains provides an innovative view on how organisations (i.e. childcare centres) can assist individuals in the acquisition and activation of social network ties and social capital. Mario Luis Small bases much of this book on extensive studies done on mothers who enrol their children in childcare centres in New York. Through this investigation, Small surmises that the policies and activities of these centres can help provide resources (e.g. tangible goods, health knowledge and social support) to mothers who might be otherwise considered economically or socially disadvantaged. He ultimately states ‘This book argues that people's social capital depends fundamentally on the organizations in which they participate routinely, and that, through multiple mechanisms, organizations can create and reproduce network advantages…’ (Small, 2009, p. 5).

Small begins the book with a grounded review of social capital theory and history as well as a look into the concept of organisational embeddedness. He then aptly relies on storytelling to take the reader inside the lives of these mothers in New York City. Sharing their stories to underline and bring to life the concepts shown in larger quantitative studies, Small lends credence to his suppositions. Mainly, Small asserts that childcare centres are vital to the well‐being of families they serve due to the centres abilities to validate that members were deserving of resources or assistance, store and distribute tangible resources and information, refer families to other organisations, and collaborate with other organisations to provide further access to goods and services which might not otherwise be available to these families. He further explains why parents make social and organisational contacts by way of these centres and why the centres are both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated due to state, federal and city mandates. Small brings to light the sometimes‐unacknowledged benefits of childcare centres particularly for parents and overall health and well‐being of the family. For example, increasing the purview of these centres to be able to assist in Medicaid enrolment helped to improve rates of health insurance among children (Love, 2002). Additionally, providing a place to connect with others who are experiencing similar life events allows connections between parents that may not happen otherwise. Small also suggests that the implication of organisations increasing access to social connections and social benefit reach far beyond childcare centres to incorporate other organisations such as churches, gyms, salons and other local establishments which allow patrons to interact frequently.

While I feel this book is an excellent examination of the social network and social capital implications of childcare centres, I ultimately think the book falls short of its title in understanding ‘origins of network inequality in everyday life’. Arguably, Small fails to fully address the wider set of network inequalities around race, socioeconomic status, housing status and other systemic mechanisms, for example. (Antinyan, Horváth, & Jia, 2019; Song, Frazier, & Pettis, 2018; Tóth et al., 2019). In fact, Small almost asserts that a poor family enrolled in a childcare centre in a poor neighbourhood may have more organisational social capital available to them than if the family were to attend a childcare centre in a slightly more affluent neighbourhood. While this may be one way to look at personal and organisational networks to explain social capital available to families in this situation, I do not think Small's study and subsequent writings ultimately explain the origins of network inequality.

Given this one criticism, I still feel as though Unanticipated Gains is a must read for several fields. Firstly, for those studying or creating federal, state, and city‐wide policies for childcare the implications in this book suggest these polices would reach far beyond just the child and have the potential to improve the health of the entire family if managed correctly. Furthermore, for researchers and practitioners concerned with understanding the way families attain resources and health information in these communities this book provides an illustrated example of this acquisition. Lastly, Small adds pertinent implications for other organisations looking to promote family health through the activation of organisational embeddedness. I would highly recommend Unanticipated Gains by Mario Luis Small as an educational and enjoyable foray into social capital implications of childcare centres.

托儿中心在将其家庭与外部资源以及彼此联系起来方面发挥什么作用？他们是否可以通过这些联系对家庭幸福产生重大影响？意外的收益提供有关组织（即儿童保育中心）如何协助个人获取和激活社交网络联系和社会资本的创新观点。马里奥·路易斯·斯玛特（Mario Luis Small）在本书的大部分内容上都基于对在纽约的托儿中心招收孩子的母亲的广泛研究。通过调查，斯莫尔推测这些中心的政策和活动可以帮助向可能在经济或社会上处于不利地位的母亲提供资源（例如有形物品，健康知识和社会支持）。他最终说：“这本书认为，人们的社会资本从根本上取决于他们日常参与的组织，并且组织可以通过多种机制来创造和复制网络优势……”（小， 2009年，页。5）。

斯玛特从本书的开头对社会资本理论和历史进行了扎实的回顾，并探讨了组织嵌入的概念。然后，他恰当地依靠讲故事，将读者带入纽约市这些母亲的生活。通过分享他们的故事来强调和实现大型定量研究中显示的概念，Small相信了他的假设。Small基本上断言，托儿所对于他们服务的家庭的福祉至关重要，因为托儿所能够验证成员是否值得资源或援助，存储和分发有形资源和信息，将家庭推荐给其他组织并进行协作与其他组织合作，以提供对这些家庭可能无法获得的商品和服务的进一步访问。他进一步解释了为什么父母通过这些中心进行社会和组织上的联系，以及为什么这些中心由于州，联邦和城市的授权而具有内在和外在动机。Small揭示了托儿所有时未被承认的好处，特别是对父母和整体健康以及家庭的福祉。例如，增加这些中心的权限，以便能够协助加入Medicaid，有助于提高儿童的健康保险率（Love，Small揭示了托儿所有时未被承认的好处，特别是对父母和整体健康以及家庭的福祉。例如，增加这些中心的权限，以便能够协助加入Medicaid，有助于提高儿童的健康保险率（Love，Small揭示了托儿所有时未被承认的好处，特别是对父母和整体健康以及家庭的福祉。例如，增加这些中心的权限，以便能够协助加入Medicaid，有助于提高儿童的健康保险率（Love， 2002）。此外，提供一个与经历类似生活事件的其他人联系的地方，可以使父母之间的联系本来不会发生。斯莫尔还指出，组织增加获得社会联系和社会利益的意义远不止于托儿中心，而是纳入教会，体育馆，沙龙和其他允许顾客经常互动的其他当地机构等其他组织。

虽然我认为这本书很好地考察了托儿中心的社会网络和社会资本含义，但我最终认为这本书的标题不足以理解“日常生活中网络不平等的起源”。可以说，例如，Small未能完全解决围绕种族，社会经济地位，住房状况和其他系统性机制的更广泛的网络不平等现象。（Antinyan，Horváth和Jia，  2019年; Song，Frazier和Pettis，  2018年;Tóth等人，2019年）。实际上，斯莫特几乎断言，在一个贫困社区的儿童保育中心就读的贫困家庭可能比在一个稍微富裕的社区中去一个儿童保育中心的家庭拥有更多的组织社会资本。尽管这可能是查看个人和组织网络以解释这种情况下家庭可用的社会资本的一种方法，但我认为Small的研究及其后续著作并不能最终解释网络不平等的根源。

鉴于这一批评，我仍然觉得《意外收获》是几个领域必读的书。首先，对于那些正在研究或制定联邦，州和全市范围内的儿童保育政策的人，本书中的含义表明，如果管理得当，这些政策将不仅限于儿童，而且有可能改善整个家庭的健康。此外，对于关心了解家庭在这些社区中获取资源和健康信息的方式的研究人员和从业人员，本书提供了这种收购的插图。最后，Small为希望通过激活组织内在性来促进家庭健康的其他组织增加了相关的含义。我强烈推荐意料之外的收益 由Mario Luis Small撰写，旨在对托儿中心的社会资本影响进行教育和愉快的尝试。