Glen Adler and Eddie Webster, eds., Trade Unions and Democratization in South Africa, 1985–1997. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. vii + 238 pp. $69.95 cloth.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Few issues have occupied the attention of academics, analysts and activists more closely than those on the role of South Africa's labor movement in the transition to democracy. Most commentators place the beginning of this transition to former President F. W. De Klerk's February 1990 decision to repeal the ban on liberation movements and release Nelson Mandela and other prisoners from incarceration. However, it would be more accurate to think of the transition as beginning in 1973 in the industrial and port city of Durban, where thousands of workers shook the quiet confidence of South Africa's racial capitalist regime through a series of spontaneous and prolonged strikes that changed the context of South African labor and politics in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.010 |
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".