MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W2017019576 · doi:10.1353/ces.2013.0024

Silver and Hotcakes and Beer: Irish Montreal in the 1840s

2013· article· en· W2017019576 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Sherry Olson

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian ethnic studies · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsObsolescenceIrishPower (physics)StructuringEconomySociologyLawPolitical scienceEconomic historyEconomicsBusinessMarketing

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

The papers of Bartholomew O'Brien, innkeeper and broker of silver, offer a fresh look at Montreal's Irish Catholic community in the 1840s. His interventions illustrate the way an individual navigated an "ethnicized" social network and circulated resources between the market economy and the gift economy, spheres that Ferdinand Tönnies termed the Gesellschaft and the Gemeinschaft (1887). In a city embarked on the revolution of steam power, the two circuits were braided together, and, despite the obsolescence of Tönnies' original formulation, the distinction reveals some persistent features of the invasive nature of capital and human responses to its perennial re-structuring of the urban economy. When the market faltered, each of the several ethnic communities worked to buffer its members through a personal web of trust. The evidence is based on archival sources: O'Brien's own correspondence and daybook, parish registers, and leases and loans conserved in notaries' repertories. Les papiers de Bartholomew O'Brien, aubergiste et changeur d'argent, offrent une nouvelle perspective sur la communauté irlando-catholique de Montréal. Membre de la génération pionnière, ses interventions au cours des années 1840 font comprendre comment l'individu naviguait dans un réseau social «ethnicisé» pour faire circuler des ressources entre l'économie du marché et l'économie du don, les deux sphères que Ferdinand Tönnies nommait Gesellschaft et Gemeinschaft (1887). Dans une ville qui amorçait une révolution industrielle, les deux circuits s'entrecroisaient. Bient qu'elle soit dépassée, la distinction de Tönnies découvre la nature envahissante du capital et la réponse humaine à la restructuration de l'économie urbaine. Lors d'une défaillance du marché, chaque communauté culturelle s'acharnait à protéger les siens en mobilisant son propre réseau de confiance. L'interprétation est fondée sur des sources archivistiques: un journal de bord tenu par O'Brien, une correspondance et comptabilité, et baux et prêts conservés dans les répertoires des notaires.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.814
Threshold uncertainty score0.433

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 studies0.0010.001
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 head0.072
GPT teacher head0.317
Teacher spread0.245 · 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 designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

Quick stats

Citations4
Published2013
Admission routes2
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueCanadian ethnic studiesSame topicCanadian Identity and HistoryFrench-language works237,207