Alvin Finkel (Ed.) (2012): Working People in Alberta: A History
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Alvin Finkel (ed.) (2012) Working People in Alberta: A History AU Press, Athabasca University, Edmonton. pp. xii + 345 Paperback: ISBN 978-1-92683-658-4 RRP: CAD 41.95 Alberta is a province which has been dominated by conservative and neo liberal governments. The object of this book is to challenge this conservative image by highlighting the 'communitarian values' of most Albertans. The introduction says that (p. 3) workers, farmers and small business operators ... have always formed the overwhelming majority of the population. It is a history of this majority, and especially its working class component, that this book tells. The spur that led to the production of this book was a desire to celebrate the centenary of the formation of the Alberta Federation of Labour in 1912. The book mainly focuses on the lives and struggles of working people against the combined weight of corporations and the government of Alberta. The presentation of material is enlivened with quotations from various activists or persons who found themselves involved in various struggles. The volume has the appearance and feel of a coffee table book. While it is not explicitly stated anywhere, it is presumably the hope of the publishers that it is something that the working people of Alberta will dip into on a regular basis in learning about the struggles and bravery of their forbears. It is liberally sprinkled with photos of workers across the generations in different types of work, union meetings, workers/unionists on picket lines or at demonstrations, union leaders, contemporary newspaper articles, cartoons and examples of union memorabilia. Such inclusions provide the volume with an extra degree of interest. Material, with two exceptions, is presented chronologically. It begins with an examination of the organisation of work by different groups of Native people, before the arrival of European settlement. Various chapters examine different time periods and present information on the rise and fall of new industries, the nature and harshness of work, attempts by workers to unionise, various struggles to gain recognition, strike action in either attempting to gain improved wages and working conditions, or to resist attacks on them by employers, aided and abetted by the Alberta government either through the use of police and legislation designed to weaken unions and their ability to utilise strike action and even participate in collective bargaining. …
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.002 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it