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Record W2257107672

Irish participation in Victoria's union movement, 1850-1900

2011· article· en· W2257107672 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Keith Pescod

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Australasian journal of Irish studies/˜The œAustralasian journal of Irish studies · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAustralian History and Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIrishCraftProject commissioningImmigrationPublishingTrade unionLawQuarter (Canadian coin)On boardPolitical scienceEconomic historyManagementSociologyHistoryArchaeologyEconomicsLabour economics
DOInot available

Abstract

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British emigrant and maritime administrators of the mid-nineteenth century severely restricted the quantity and nature of possessions most travellers could take on board the small vessels conveying them to the colonies. However, officials could not stipulate which beliefs, values and aspirations travellers might elect to take with them. Some workers brought the skills and experience necessary to organise labour. By 1860 in Victoria they had introduced craft (or 'trade') societies, won an eight-hour working day and established the Trades Hall. However, very few Irish occupied leading roles in Victoria's union movement before the 1870s. Irish immigrant workers were, for the most part, far from being an inert group. Many thousands of them had left the security of their homes, families and friends to embark on a frightening voyage to an unknown, but hopefully better, future, and, on arrival, they laboured on the goldfields and on farms, in factories and in infrastructure construction, and also helped establish their own churches and schools. There is no evidence that the Catholic Church discouraged Catholic workers from pursuing union leadership or that its clergy interfered in union affairs. There were isolated incidents of church-union contact, such as the support Cardinal Moran of Sydney offered in 1890 to maritime strikers; however, he took no further action when the strike organisers ignored his overtures.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.694
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

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 head0.103
GPT teacher head0.372
Teacher spread0.269 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".

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