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Race, Gender, Class, and Colonial Nationalism: Railway Development in Newfoundland, 1881-1898

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Kurt Korneski

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VenueLabour / Le Travail · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProsperityEnlightenmentAntipathyModernityNationalismIndependence (probability theory)Modernization theoryDynamismClass consciousnessColonialismEconomic nationalismBritishnessTechnocracySociologyPolitical economyHistoryPolitical scienceLawPolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Historians have long noted that policies of “progress” were integral to men and women throughout northern North America in the 19th century. A range of scholars have commented on the centrality of railway technology to these policies. Indeed, they have suggested that, in the 19th century, bourgeois nationalists were swept up in a kind of “railway fever,” and that even though there were detractors, the tenacity of pro-railway elites, and the considerable patronage that huge construction loans and contracts provided them, ensured that these projects triumphed over other possibilities. The Newfoundland case suggests that there is a need for both a slightly revised assessment of elites and their views and goals, and a more nuanced reading of the role of ordinary men and women in the policy-making process. While elites in the colony did view the railway as a means of becoming a “progressive” or “modern nation,” and while they viewed economic prosperity and “enlightenment” as central to modernity and progressiveness, commercial dynamism was only one important component of a more encompassing program. Elites supported the railway because it provided them with a way of living according to standards of Britishness that became important to Newfoundlanders and others in “white” settler dominions, especially after the mid-19th century. Central to “Britishness” as policy makers understood the term, was the idea that “British societies” were those in which men lived according to their “god given manly independence.” A careful analysis of the daily press suggests that many working people took these ideals seriously, and that they saw railway work, and the future employment and other economic opportunities its promoters promised, as a means of living according to them. When opponents of railway development did maneuver themselves into power, they found efforts to change course were met with popular upheaval. Ultimately, it was a broadly based solidarity founded on notions of male entitlement that determined which policies were “feasible.” Resume Les historiens ont note depuis longtemps que les politiques de « progres » etaient d’une importance primordiale tant pour les hommes que pour les femmes partout dans l’Amerique du Nord au 19e siecle. De nombreux chercheurs ont fait des commentaires sur la centralite de la technologie ferroviaire a ces politiques. En effet, ils ont suggere qu’au 19e siecle, les nationalistes bourgeois se sont eloignes tres rapidement d’une sorte de « fievre ferroviaire » et que meme s’il y avait des detracteurs, la tenacite des elites ferroviaires, et le patronage considerable grâce aux prets et contrats massifs de construction, permettaient d’assurer que ces projets ont triomphe sur d’autres possibilites. Le cas de Terre-Neuve suggere qu’il y avait un besoin d’une evaluation legerement revisee des elites et de leurs opinions et objectifs, et une lecture plus nuancee du role des hommes et des femmes ordinaires dans le processus d’elaboration des politiques. Bien que les elites de la colonie ne vissent pas les chemins de fer comme un moyen de devenir une nation « progressiste » ou « moderne » et bien qu’ils vissent la prosperite economique et la « revelation » comme les elements essentiels a la modernite et au progres, le dynamisme commercial etait le seul conmposant important d’un programme plus englobant. Les elites appuyaient les chemins de fer car ils leur fournissaient un style de vie conformement aux normes des Britanniques qui devenaient importants aux Terre-Neuviens et a d’autres dans les communautes des rapatries « blancs », surtout apres le milieu du 19e siecle. Essentiel au « caractere britannique » tel qu’il etait compris par les responsables des politiques etait l’idee que les « societes britanniques » etaient celles dans lesquelles les hommes vivaient en conformite avec leur « independance masculine donnee par Dieu ». Une analyse soigneuse de la presse quotidienne suggere que de nombreux travailleurs prennaient ces ideaux au serieux, et qu’ils voyaient les travaux ferroviaires et les emplois eventuels et d’autres possibilites economiques que les promoteurs promettaient comme un moyen de subsistance. Bien que les opposants du developpement ferroviaire aient manœuvre pour atteindre au pouvoir, ils avaient trouve que les efforts pour changer la course ont donne lieu a des bouleversements populaires. Au bout du compte, c’etait une solidarite a grande echelle fondee sur les notions des droits des hommes qui determinaient lesquelles des politiques qui etaient « realisables ».

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.592
Threshold uncertainty score0.885

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.215 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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

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