Jim Silver, Scoundrels and Shirkers: Capitalism and Poverty in Britain (Fernwood Publishing, 2023)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
reviews / comptes rendus / 379 most studies of the Latin American Cold War have sought to integrate the internal and international dimensions of the conflict, McKenzie and Dunne privilege the aifld.Latin American voices -both primary and secondary -are largely missing from the narrative.The authors also neglect the use of diacritical marks and incorrectly cite several Latin American surnames.A deeper awareness of Latin American culture and history, then, would have significantly enhanced the book.Despite these shortcomings, El Golpe reflects a collaborative approach to popular historical writing that will resonate with many general readers.Rob McKenzie learned about the 1990 assault in Cuautitlán while working at a Ford assembly plant in the Twin Cities.He was also an active member of his uaw chapter, where he later served as president.Appalled by what he discovered, McKenzie invited two survivors of the attack to speak at a local uaw event.Through activist circles and dogged sleuthing, including many foia requests, he eventually found the evidence that led him to his conclusions.While poring over aifld records at the University of Maryland on the anniversary of the Pinochet coup, McKenzie met Patrick Dunne, who was completing his dissertation on the aifld's involvement in Chile.Dunne later helped McKenzie revise El Golpe, and the two writers also enlisted support from historian Paula Cuellar Cuellar, who interviewed some of the participants in the Ford Cuautitlán strike.Together, they helped shed light not only on the aifld's operations in Mexico but also in other parts of Latin America.For as McKenzie and Dunne rightly recognize, "Organized labor has much soul searching to do regarding this past with the cia." (x)
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.028 | 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".