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Farm laborers, United States and Canada

2013· other· en· W1536336543 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Billy Peard

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration · 2013
Typeother
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicAgriculture and Farm Safety
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWorkforceWork (physics)TerminologyFarm workersTerm (time)AgricultureMigrant workersBusinessPolitical scienceDemographic economicsGeographyLawEconomic growthEconomicsEngineering

Abstract

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Abstract Although the term has slightly different meanings in different contexts, the most precise and inclusive definition for a migrant farm worker is “itinerant harvester or planter.” This reflects the reality that virtually all farm laborers in the United States are involved in the labor‐intensive processes found at the beginning or at the end of the growing cycle. As one commentator noted, the term “migrant farm worker” is the commonly accepted terminology because “itinerant” lacks phonetic grace and “seasonal farm worker” erroneously assumes that all seasonal work involves long‐distance travel (Moore 1965: xi). A migrant farm worker is defined by US law as someone “whose employment requires travel that preclude[s] the farm worker from returning to his or her domicile within the same day” (Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act, codified as 29 USC 1802). Notwithstanding legal definitions, the term is best understood in conjunction with the unique circumstances that led to the current agricultural economy, which manages to feed the nation by employing less than 2 percent of the workforce (Rothenberg 1998: 62).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.050
Threshold uncertainty score0.365

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.014
Science and technology studies0.0060.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0220.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.191
Teacher spread0.186 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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