Bibliographic record
Abstract
While not as well studied as textile (which has many hundreds of books and articles) or auto and coal, longshore work has been examined at length by several previous generations of scholars.There are now a number of new books on the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ilwu), the West Coast longshore union, and its founding leader Harry Bridges.While coal and textile work have largely disappeared from North America, and auto production, though still critical, is no longer overwhelmingly located in the United States and Canada, West Coast longshore work in both countries plays an even more central role today in the global economy and is a major cog in the logistics industry, the global supply chain.In addition, there is a recent spate of material on the Industrial Workers of the World (iww, or Wobblies), which, along with the ilwu, is often presented as a model for radical labour organizing, in contrast to the business unionism -or worse -of most contemporary labour organizations.In this essay, I will examine several of these new works and their relevance for today.This scholarship and the questions raised are not just of arcane, prurient, or antiquarian interest but relevant to understanding the tasks of radical labour activists today.I will argue that these earlier histories -the iww in the 1910s review essay / note critique
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.001 |
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".