<b>Bryan Palmer,</b><b> <i>Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the History of Transgression [From Medieval to Modern].</i> </b> New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000. 416 pp. $55.00 cloth; $24.00 paper.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bryan Palmer is a distinguished Canadian labor and social historian who in the 1970s published a history of skilled workers and industrial capitalism in nineteenth century Ontario. With Greg Kealey he edits the Canadian journal Labour/Le Travail. He has written a useful history of the Knights of Labor, and a text of Canadian labor history. Thus, he is both an original scholar and a helpful one. As the field of labor history gained an academic place with positions, grants, conferences, societies, and journals of its own, Bryan Palmer cultivated his interest in the methods of E. P. Thompson, whose “cultural Marxism,” moral and political commitments Palmer has done so much to maintain and define for a new generation. Economics and culture inhabited different parts of the university, if not different worlds of thought, where Marxism was torn in two. While Marxism remained alive to him, labor history and its travails receded from his direct view. Carrying forth the Thompsonian legacy, he re-positioned himself with direct interventions into the debates of his times. In 1990 Palmer published Descent into Discourse, a major intellectual intervention in the cultural wars. Palmer revised Thompson to allow the categories of race and gender in the history of the working class (Thompson was criticized for omitting them). Palmer writes about them not so much as labor power, but as “identities” or social subjects.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.006 |
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".