'The best men that ever worked the lumber': Aboriginal Longshoremen on Burrard Inlet, BC, 1863-1939
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Abstract
This essay examines Aboriginal longshoremen, most of whom belonged to the Squamish First Nation, on Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, from 1863 to 1939. Beginning with a consideration of the Squamish adaptation to wage labour in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, this essay analyses the ways in which Aboriginal workers negotiated the daily demands of waterfront work. Their encounter with the work process, labour politics, welfare capitalism, and class conflict are studied in depth. Despite intense competition from non-Aboriginal workers for limited job oppor tunities, Aboriginal longshoremen worked on Burrard Inlet for a long period of time; in addition to the daily demands of waterfront work, this essay also explores the strategies that Squamish dockers adopted to protect their positions on the waterfront. Often mentioned in the scholarly literature, but never studied in a systematic way, the 'Indian' waterfront provides a window into the importance of waged work to Aboriginal people on Burrard Inlet and the sophisticated ways that the Squamish responded to Canadian colonialism and capitalism. La pr�sente �tude aborde la question des d�bardeurs autochtones, dont la plupart faisaient partie de la Premi�re nation de Squamish, � Burrard Inlet, en Colombie-Britannique, de 1863 � 1939. Apr�s avoir abord� l'adaptation des autochtones de Squamish au travail salari� au cours de la deuxi�me moiti� du XIXe si�cle, l'article analyse la mani�re dont les travailleurs autochtones g�raient les exigences quotidiennes du travail dans un port; leur initiation aux processus et aux politiques du travail, au capitalisme social et � la lutte des classes sont �tudi�es de mani�re approfondie. Malgr� une rivalit� intense de la part des travailleurs non-autochtones pour les quelques emplois disponibles, les d�bardeurs autochtones ont travaill� � Burrard Inlet pendant longtemps. Outre les exigences quotidiennes du travail dans un port, cette �tude analyse �galement les strat�gies adopt�es par les d�bardeurs autochtones de Squamish pour prot�ger leurs postes dans le port. Souvent mentionn�e dans les recherches, mais jamais �tudi�e de mani�re syst�matique, l'�tude du travail des Indiens dans les ports constitue un aper�u de l'importance du travail salari� pour les autochtones � Burrard Inlet ainsi que des m�thodes �labor�es dont se servaient les autochtones de Squamish pour r�agir au colonialisme et au capitalisme canadiens.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".