Ambivalent Learning: Gendered and Racialized Barriers to Computer Access for Immigrant Garment Workers
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the ways in which one group of contingent workers—immigrant garment sewers—engage in computer-related learning activities. Based on our observation of a twelve-hour introductory course we designed, we analyse both the barriers and possibilities of computer learning for this group of women. Specifically, we organize our discussion around three key issues pertaining to their learning: language, curriculum, and space. Résumé Cet article se penche sur la manière dont un groupe de couturières immigrantes ont entrepris des activités de formation en informatique. À partir des observations faites dans le cours d'introduction que nous avons concu et qui était d'une durée de douze heures, nous analysons les entraves et les possibilités offertes à ce groupe de femmes par l'apprentissage informatique. Plus spécifiquement, nous avons regroupé nos commentaires autour de trois facteurs affectant leur apprentissage: la langue, le contenu du cours et l'environnement d'apprentissage.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".