Bibliographic record
Abstract
well as female workers.In addition, it offers a wider (but highly polarized) range of incomes and benefit packages.Nevertheless, Vosko argues, the THI retains a markedly "feminized" character.The casualization of employment typical of this sector "means that more forms of employment resemble 'women's work,' not only the types of employment relationships that women are normally confined to and/or the type of employment contracts to which they are often subject...but also the inferior conditions of employment that women frequently face related to both their presumed role in social reproduction and their 'presumed' status as 'secondary' breadwinners" (162).The THI employment form, its terms and conditions, are richly documented in chapters four and five.In chapter seven, moreover, Vosko shows how the THI has become implicated in the broader shift from the "welfare" to the "workfare" state (Peel municipality's " Workfirst" program, launched under the Harris government's Ontario Works Act).These developments are set in relation to the global onslaught against the Keynesian-Welfare form of state.Yet Vosko is clear in her rejection of Margaret Thatcher's dictum, "There is No Alternative."Just as countries varied in response to earlier efforts by the ILO to establish that "labour is not a commodity," so too in the era of "globalization" have their responses to the casualization of labour differed.She documents the way a variety of the Organization For Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countriesand, within Canada, the province of Quebec -have sought to mitigate this trend.It is thus not surprising that her conclusion tackles the question of "what is to be done" head on.Here Vosko is less concerned with reforms to social insurance systems that would counter (rather than exacerbate, as Canada's Employment Insurance Act has done) the spread of precarious work, than with new forms of unionization.This is certainly consistent with a theoretical thread that runs through the book -the need to assert, against the grain of capitalism, that "labour is not a commodity."Yet it also reflects her underlying understanding that the most important form of empowerment comes from the ability to organize and act collectively.This book thus offers a richly textured feminist and socialist analysis of a very important set of developments.It is a superb example of
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".