Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is a book that deserves not to have been reprinted, at least not bearing the freight with which its overwrought introduction burdens it. Its author, Bernard Mandel, a working-class activist with a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University, was an estimable and admirable figure. His 1963 biography of Samuel Gompers remains the best account of the life and limitations of the American Federation of Labor’s most important leader, both because of its assiduous research and of its critique of Gompers’s racism. That volume remains out-of-print while this relatively slim and unedifying one has been reissued by perhaps the nation’s leading academic publisher of labour history. Regrettably the republication appears to be mounted and marketed as an antidote to the alleged excesses of “whiteness studies,” a role the book cannot successfully play. Mandel’s virtues make all of this especially lamentable. Apparently – the editor’s introduction cannot quite nail down his political affiliations – an independent leftist able to profit from associations with both the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party, Mandel’s most dramatic transformation occurred as a result of participation in the Black freedom and pan-African movements in Cleveland and then Kenya from the late 1950s through the 1970s. A school teacher and union activist, he helped organize Cleveland’s freedom schools in the 1960s and felt so transformed by his activism and changes in his personal life that he announced to the press in 1969 that he considered himself to be Black, figuring race sociologically and psychologically. He moved to Kenya five years later and became an important English-to-Swahili translareview essay / note critique
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".