Bibliographic record
Abstract
Global labour faces key challenges that could, paradoxically, present opportunities for the organization of labour and social change. Labour migration dominates political discourse across the North, as workers seek better conditions in a globalized economy and are willing to take big risks to move to jobs and new lives in foreign countries. Although they are traditionally opposed to the importation of workers, in terms of the making of a global working class trade unions may play a unifying and democratic role in integrating international migrants socially. I also turn to the story of labour and its “others” – that is, those social movements that have sometimes been in competition with it, such as the environmental movement, but that would make up together a powerful force for sustainable democratic development. Too often opposed to the workers’ movements, the “new” social movements based on identity politics may well play an invigorating role in terms of reviving and reinventing trade unions. Finally, I examine the little-known story of workers and labour internationalism, which is, at one and the same time, an old story and part of the making of the working class but which, today, is a key issue if labour is to offer a global alternative to global capitalism. If we are moving towards a globalized setting for workers’ struggles, the need for a new internationalism is a pressing task, not only for trade unions but also for social movements more generally.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.056 | 0.006 |
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".