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THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL UNIONISM IN CANADA

2009· article· en· W2069156000 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jeff Shantz

Bibliographic record

VenueWorkingUSA · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLabor Movements and Unions
Canadian institutionsKwantlen Polytechnic University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMilitantPolitical economySocial movementPoliticsDemocracySociologyLabor unionPolitical scienceSocial changeLawEconomicsLabour economics

Abstract

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Significant attention has been given to social unionism in Canada as an alternative form of unionism which can combine successful bargaining with community‐based action for broader, even radical, social change. Supposedly representing an engaged, socially rooted activist union movement which might revitalize the labor movement as a whole, social unionism is said to provide the basis to return unions to the center of social change and progressive political action in Canada. There is even expectation that social unions will play a leading role in the foundation of a militant left resistance. Unfortunately, the reality is that social unionism has not been anything, even approximating a militant force or change or community defense during the decades‐long neoliberal period of capitalist development. In certain unfortunate instances, social union leaders have chosen to condemn the community groups that have put up a militant resistance, even going so far as to discipline their own rank‐and‐file members who have organized flying squads to support working‐class community struggles more broadly. The fundamental limits of social unionism in Canada are related to three main problems: a hierarchical and conciliatory bargaining model for action; electoralism and commitment to social democratic pressure politics through boycotts, symbolic protests, and political lobbying, especially through the New Democratic Party, and more recently even the procapitalist Liberal Party; and a charitable approach to community groups coupled with a paternalistic relation with social movements.

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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: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.888
Threshold uncertainty score0.332

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 studies0.0000.000
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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.264 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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".

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Published2009
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