Introduction: The Year 2000 and the Deaths of Three Who Made Labour History
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Abstract
The study OF the working CLASS and commitment to its causes is central to what this journal is about. Three men who made significant contributions to working class life over the course ofthe last century, but whose personal efforts, sadly and to our collective loss, came to an end in the year 2000, merit our attention. Marcel Pepin, a vibrant voice in the modern history of Quebec's union movement and former leader of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CNTU/CSN), died 6 March 2000. Few trade unionists in Canada have exercised the influence of Pepin, who was one of three major leaders of the historic 1972 Common Front general strike in Quebec's burgeoning and critical public sector. Jailed for his defiance of back-to-work legislation, Pepin announced the rise of labour militancy that would be associated with Quebecois workers and their leaders throughout the 1970s, and served notice that capital and the state now confronted a powerful presence in French Canada, where the realization of class exploitation was heightening with awareness of national oppression. We offer below a brief obituary in his honour, a tribute to Pepin's place in the history of Canada's and Quebec's class struggle by Michel Rioux, La fidelite, Taffair de toute une vie. On 15 June 2000 another advocate of Canadian workers, especially those incarcerated in homelessness and poverty, Norman N. Feltes, died. Feltes, a marxist literary theorist with an acute sense ofthe significance of an Althusserian reading of texts, was one of many dissidents who left the United States in the 1960s to
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.046 | 0.014 |
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".