About Julia Smith Julia Smith is an assistant professor in the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba. She studies the political economy of labour relations in Canada and the history and politics of women’s labour activism. Books by Julia Smith Rethinking Feminist History and Theory Essays on Gender, Class, and Labour edited by Lisa Pasolli & Julia Smith Conscripted to Care Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response by (author) Julia Smith Dissenting Traditions Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History edited by Sean Carleton, Ted McCoy & Julia Smith