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Past Caring? Women, Work and Emotion focuses on the history of women's care work in New Zealand and on how women's association with, and responsibility for, care shape their lives and social status. It presents a variety of historical case studies which collectively document shifting concepts and practices about care, unpaid and paid, familial and professional, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The editors note that it "seeks to make care and care work in New Zealand's past visible," offering "different vantage points on women's history and its resonances now" in public debates about issues such as child poverty, pay equity, and parental leaves (7).

These are hard times for those of us who loathe capitalism-with its inevitable exploitation, competition, and rewards for selfishness and greed, along with its hostility towards values of compassion, economic sharing, co-operation, and solidarity. The capitalist classes, especially their Right-wing advocates, have done a thorough job of smashing their opponents. One of their greatest victories has been the way they have almost made alternative visions and the movements supporting anticapitalism seem impossible. They have, with the help of many of the regimes of twentieth-century communist governments, even stolen our language and our history. So many activists talk about anticapitalism because the terms 'communism' and 'socialism' have been robbed of their earlier, positive meanings. Adapted from the source document.