Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since its founding in 1982, the Working Centre has won broad recognition and respect in Waterloo Region, Ontario, a city of half a million two hours west of Toronto.Yet few people there or anywhere appreciate what an extraordinary, seminal institution it is.This eye-opening book by its founders corrects superficial impressions.It will awaken fresh, hopeful, practical thinking in anybody worried about today's economic trends and the people left behind.Probably most residents of Kitchener-Waterloo imagine that the Working Centre is an ordinary charity, the same kind of non-profit organization as exists in most cities, for providing food, clothing, and shelter to the poor.At St. John's Kitchen on Victoria Avenue, the Working Centre invites all comers to share a noontime meal at no charge.In the same building, Worth a Second Look is a thrift store selling low-cost used furniture, books, and housewares.The Green Door on Market Lane sells used clothing.In renovated houses and storefronts throughout the downtown, the Working Centre rents apartments at below-market rates.Its original and oldest project is the unemployment help centre on Queen Street in the Kitchener core.The Working Centre is indeed a charity, legally chartered and frugally run.That it is known as such is a good thing.Close to a thousand people show up every spring for the centre's main fundraising event, the Mayors' Dinner.Thousands more make tax-deductible donations throughout the year, especially at Christmas, and drop off surplus bikes, home furnishings, and clothes.Hundreds volunteer their time.This generous community support, along with grants from foundations and all levels of government, keeps the centre financially afloat.Whoever visits the Working Centre in person or pages through its quarterly newsletter, Good Work News, gets hints that the Working Centre is not
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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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.718 | 0.709 |
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".