‘There Were Always Men in Our House’: Gender and the Childhood Memories of Working-Class Ukrainians in Depression-Era Canada
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Abstract
As an exploration of the childhood memories of working-class Ukrainians who grew up in Depression-era boarding houses (or houses with a few boarders) in Sudbury, Ontario, this paper treats the oral histories as the subject, not merely the method, of analysis and highlights, in particular, the gendered differences that emerge in the narratives of the men and women interviewed for this project. Moreover, this article argues that even within a politically polarized immigrant group such as the Ukrainians, where left/right, progressive/ nationalist, and secular/religious splits were so pronounced, and thus central to shaping the histories and historiographies of both camps, it was the influence of dominant gender roles rather than politics, religion, or ideology that most directly informed the differing memories of experience that men and women had of growing up Ukrainian and working class in Sudbury. In particular, this article focuses on informants’ recollections regarding three areas of activity that were part of everyday boarding house life: children’s relationships with male boarders, their domestic chores, and leisure activities. Resume Comme un des souvenirs d’enfance des Ukrainiens de la classe ouvriere qui ont grandi dans les pensions de famille (ou dans des maisons avec quelques pensionnaires) a l’epoque de la Depression a Sudbury, Ontario, cet article traite les histories orales comme le sujet, non seulement la methode, de l’analyse et souligne, en particulier, les differences de genre qui emergent dans les narrations des femmes et des hommes interviewes pour ce projet. De plus, cet article pretend que meme dans un groupe d’immigrants politiquement polarise tel que les Ukrainiens, ou les separations entre la gauche et la droite, le progressiste et le nationaliste, et le seculaire et le religieux etaient si prononcees, et par consequent d’une importance primordiale aux histoires et historiographies des deux camps, c’etait l’influence des roles de genre dominant plutot que la politique, la religion, ou l’ideologie qui transmettait le plus directement les souvenirs de l’experience des hommes et des femmes qui avaient grandi dans le milieu de la classe ouvriere ukrainienne a Sudbury. En particulier, cet article se concentre sur les souvenirs des personnes interrogees en ce qui concerne trois secteurs d’activites faisant partie de la vie quotidienne dans les pensions de famille : les relations des enfants avec les pensionnaires, leurs travaux domestiques ainsi que leurs activites de loisirs.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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.
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".