The Multiple Roles of the Millworker's Lunch Basket in Central Newfoundland
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Abstract
This paper discusses the many circles in which one artifact, the millworker's lunch basket, operates. The basket is a symbol of a permanent job at the local pulp and paper mill, an artifact used in pranks by men while at work, and a basket that many women have packed with great care. The separate spheres of men's industrial work and women's domestic work are both linked and separated by this object. Based on field work and audio-taped interviews with people in Central Newfoundland, the author explores the themes of local acceptance of an outside artifact, women's domestic work in an industrial community, and the role of custom in the work life of a millworker. Resume Le document traite des nombreux cercles dans lesquels evolue un objet, ici la boite a lunch d'un travailleur d'usine. Il s'agit du symbole d'un emploi permanent a l'usine locale de pâtes et papiers, d'un objet parfois utilise par les ouvriers pour jouer des tours a leurs collegues de travail, et d'une boite que nombre de femmes remplissent avec le plus grand soin. Les spheres distinctes du travail industriel des hommes et du travail menager des femmes sont a la fois reliees et separees par cet objet. Grâce a des recherches sur le terrain et a des entrevues enregistrees sur bande sonore avec des personnes vivant dans la region centrale de Terre-Neuve, l'auteure explore les themes de l'acceptation locale d'un objet exterieur, du travail menager des femmes dans une collectivite industrielle, et du role de la coutume dans la vie professionnelle d'un ouvrier d'usine.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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