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Record W2485231404 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511618949.005

Wool, worsted and the working class: myths of origin

2007· book-chapter· en· W2485231404 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Carolyn Steedman

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHousing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWorstedWoolMythologyArtHistoryArchaeologyLiterature

Abstract

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This place, this ‘narrow bit of hill country’ dividing Yorkshire from Lancashire in which the Colne and Calder valleys lie, has been a land of myth for a very long time. It was, according to E. P. Thompson, the locus classi of ‘the outstanding fact of the period 1790 and 1830 … the formation of the “working class”’. Through countless readings and appropriations of The Making of the English Working Class , through all the historical work that has confirmed and readjusted the account first published in 1963, what he told in it has acquired the status of myth – a foundational account of modern English society, and of the birth of the social classes that accompanied the early stages of its capitalist development. According to the imaginative strictures of classical mythology, then, we may see a Colossus striding out among the hills. There is, first of all, the ancient and amiable Reverend John Murgatroyd, accompanying his maidservants to the putter-out, the small-time merchant wool comber who supplied the worsted bundles that they would, over the next few weeks, spin into yarn in the spaces of time between the domestic services they were contracted with him to provide. He always went with a new girl, to show her the way; in March 1782, for example, he went ‘to Halifax; our Servt. Betty with me to Hollawell=Green & took 5 lbs of yarn, & brought back 9 lbs o' Wool – this her first Time of going – So now She knows ye. Way –’.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score0.082

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0130.069
Scholarly communication0.0150.012
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.150 · 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 designNot applicable
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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