Labour and the city: Some notes across theory and research
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract At a time of growing interest in research and theory concerning urban space and urban workers, this article explores three divergent strands of scholarly research and theory that are producing new perspectives on the relations of labour, work, and employment with processes of urbanization, the production of urban space or city life. Drawing together research and debates both within geography and outside of it, this article briefly reviews emerging urban scholarship on labour in the so‐called “sharing economy,” historical research on the distinctly urban histories of slavery in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and South America, and the often unpaid and highly gendered labour of urban homesteading and autonomous self‐provisioning in cities. This article does not strive to present comprehensive or masterful readings of these literatures but rather to explore some of the very different ways that “labour” is mobilized in them, noting the differences between them but also pointing to some of the insights about knowledge production on labour and city life that is offered by reading them together.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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