Pioneers of Social Progress?: Gender and Technology in British Printing Trade Union Journals, 1840–65
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay examines mid-nineteenth century compositors’ and bookbinders’ trade union journals and their presentation of gendered workplaces: the male world of the skilled compositor and the female realm of book-folders and stitchers. Compositors were among the best educated of London artisans who were anxious to safeguard their traditions against the combined threat of apprentices, women compositors, and mechanization. By emphasizing the masculine traditions of the craft, opposing technology, and arguing for women’s relegation to the domestic sphere, compositors’ journals constructed a socially conservative community that stood in stark contrast to the bookbinders’ union, which campaigned on behalf of a female workforce.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it