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The white-blouse revolution / Gregory Anderson -- Women clerical workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jane E. Lewis -- Pioneers in a dead-end profession : the first women clerks in banks and insurance companies / Susanne Dohrn -- Commercial education and the female office worker / Gladys Carnaffan -- "Get out and get under" : the impact of demobilisation on the Civil Service, 1919-32 / Meta Zimmeck -- The feminisation of the clerical labour force since the Second World War / Rosemary Crompton -- Beyond feminisation : clerical workers in the United States from the 1920s through the 1960s / Margaret L. Hedstrom

Despite the proliferation of studies concerned with the unemployment problem and the mechanics of welfare provision between the world wars, most historians have focused either on the difficulties facing manual workers or on the role of state services in the provision of benefits. This emphasis is not surprising given the persistence of a high level of manual unemployment in this period, which led in turn to an unprecedented demand for maintenance and a huge increase in public expenditure on unemployment relief. However, the emphasis upon manual workers has led to an unfortunate neglect of other sections of the labour-force, while the concern with the evolution of state services has diverted attention from the continuing importance of voluntary agencies in the field of welfare provision.

Abstract
Munda languages reveal competing word-level vs. phrase-level domains with respect to prosody, with weak-strong vs. strong-weak patterns, respectively. The prosodically strong syllable at the word-level is a root element that reflects cognacy across the family, while the word-frames they are embedded in frequently do not. Such a pattern of cognate roots and non-cognate word-frames is attested across the Austroasiatic phylum. The types of word-frames that such roots are embedded in reflect traces of a once-active system of semantically transparent prefixation or noun class marking, in addition to now mainly frozen systems of noun-verb stem compounding or noun incorporation. Word-level prosody in Munda is archaic, while phrase-level prosodic features are secondary and reflect local South Asian norms.

Canadian workers at risk: Removing barriers to treatment for public safety professionals (PSP)
Gregory S Anderson, from Thompson Rivers University and Helen Dragatsi, from Government of Canada speak to us about removing barriers to treatment for Canadian workers at risk. It has long been recognized that public safety personnel (PSP) experience a high risk of psychological impacts caused by traumatic events within their occupations. Such exposures have been linked to increased incidence of posttraumatic stress injuries (PTSI), including anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depressive disorders, suicide ideation, and substance abuse. In response, most Canadian jurisdictions (provinces and territories) have adopted new workers' compensation legislative amendments that create a presumption in favor of PSP who suffer from trauma-induced mental disorders. In these situations, the mental disorder is presumed to have been caused by the responder's employment. These presumptive clauses facilitate access to workers' compensation for public safety professionals (PSP) who previously had the onus of proving that their psychological impairments resulted from their work.

Workers at risk: How do traumatic jobs affect essential workers?
Using an interdisciplinary team approach, doctors Anderson and Carleton have a long history of exploring the impact of potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTEs; i.e., direct or indirect exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence) and other workplace stressors on the mental health and wellbeing of essential workers. Anderson and Carleton are part of a national network of academics, researchers, and clinicians, coordinated with the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment (CIPSRT). The network has focused on workers at increased risk – including first responders and other public safety personnel (PSP), and front-line health care workers (FHCW).

Can "resilience" protect key workers from poor mental health?
First responders, other public safety personnel, and healthcare workers appear to be those most at risk of poor mental health following their occupations – but what does increasing resilience do, and how can governments protect their key workers? The contemporary Canadian healthcare model and associated research efforts typically focus on diagnoses and treatments of experienced illnesses and injuries; in contrast, proactive mitigation efforts have received much less attention.

Este estudio documenta los usos que hacen los ulwas de 225 especies vegetales. Esto incluye 187 especies medicinales, 69 alimenticias y 84 para usos auxiliares. Las plantas medicinales tratan más de 25 enfermedades y la mayoría (80%) son especies nativas del Caribe nicaragüense. Normalmente se trata de hierbas (48%) o árboles (33%). La mayor parte de las especiesusadas como alimentos (98%), medicinas (90%) y otras aplicaciones (80%) son iguales a las usadas por los miskitos. Al final se presenta un apéndice que contiene un listado de las planta usadas, con sus nombres científicos y comunes, usos y partes que se emplean de las plantas, modos de preparación y de administración al paciente, inclusive, con pruebas de alcaloides y glucósidos. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/wani.v68i0.1351 Wani No. 68 2013: 7-32