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Drawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations - including healthcare workers, educators, and parents - Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resources and little voice in decision-making.

The covid-19 pandemic severely disrupted the education system in Canada from March 2020 throughout the 2020–21 school year. It also had disproportionate secondary effects on women in terms of unpaid care, economic loss, and poor mental health. This article explores the lived experience of women educators in the province of Alberta, drawing on interviews and focus groups with 39 educators. Findings indicate that the pandemic not only exacerbated the triple burden that women educators, in particular, bear but added additional layers of responsibility related to public health management, educating children at home, elder care responsibilities, and emotional labour. The essential role women educators fulfilled within the covid-19 response, at work and at home, cost them time, professional development opportunities, mental wellness, and the positive rewards that had drawn them to the educational field. Current concerns around educator burnout and retention may be mitigated by acting on the recommendations of women educators regarding the development of more equitable education systems and social policy.

Fil: Smith, Julia. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina. ; "This paper uses a popularity function to study the relationship between sovereign default and government popularity. I construct a dataset of default history for 55 sovereign entities from 1984-2012. By distinguishing between different types of default, I find that defaults on foreign-currency-denominated debt held by banks, and on foreign-currency- denominated commercial debt, are correlated with a drop in government popularity. On the other hand, there is no correlation between defaults on local-currency-denominated debt and changes in government approval. I accompany these findings with case studies to hypothesize that because governments typically have more policy options to manage local-currency debt, the population is more likely to view defaults on such debt as a pro-active policy choice to obtain a socially optimal outcome. Consequently, constituents do not punish politicians who make such a decision. Conversely, defaults on foreign-currency debt are more likely to occur under a government that has run out of policy options and is left with little choice but to stop servicing foreign currency debt. Voters do not view such an outcome favorably. These findings suggest that the theory that a government may "gamble for redemption," or delay making a socially-optimal decision to default due to the fear of political fallout, is misguided." ; Mitchelstein, Eugenia

Ahmed White's vivid and deeply researched account of the Little Steel strike of 1937 makes an important contribution to our understanding of U.S. labor history, union organizing, and class conflict. It illustrates the tactical complexity of strikes, reveals the power and ruthlessness of employers, and demonstrates the risks of relying on the state to secure justice for working people.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.