Bibliographic record
Abstract
To be able to understand the workers of the world today, we need an understanding of how the current state of affairs developed. This section of the book sets out the evolution of the capital/wage labour relationship and how the Industrial Revolution spawned a transformation in societal structures from which the working class sought to protect itself through resistance and collaborative organization, namely through trade unions, co-operatives and social movements. The postwar boom that dominated the Western industrialized economies until the mid-1970s was bolstered by the Cold War and underpinned by the social settlement wrought from Fordism and welfarism. Workers in the developed world enjoyed a brief period of stability and prosperity, albeit based on the exploitation of colonial or dominated territories and workers of the developing world. The collapse of that settlement ushered in a period of transition from which emerged the neoliberal dogma of the market that has held sway ever since. The strong unions of the North were defanged and declawed throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and their decline contributed to the ascendance of a new model of capitalism that reached beyond national borders. The age of globalization drew most of the world into its market for goods, workers and production as communism collapsed in eastern Europe in the 1990s. Since then a global working class has emerged that is characterized by increasing numbers of women joining the workforce and the insecurity of that work, brought about by capital’s push for flexible labour. Organized labour’s response has lagged these developments, but there are signs of a resurgence of grass-roots labour movements worldwide that aim to counter the dominance of the market and fight for workers’ rights and welfare on a global scale.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.012 |
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".