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Agri-Food Industry Discourses on Temporary Foreign Workers

2024· article· en· W4408470808 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Louis Helps

Bibliographic record

VenueRural Review Ontario Rural Planning Development and Policy · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBusinessFood industryCommerceAgricultural economicsFood scienceEconomicsChemistry

Abstract

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This presentation provides an overview of ongoing research on the agri-food industry’s messaging surrounding temporary foreign workers (TFWs). TFWs are a central and growing component of Ontario’s agri-food workforce, providing a source of reliable seasonal labour as the industry anticipates continued shortages of local workers over the next decade. Simultaneously, agricultural migrant labour has been a topic of contention in recent years, with academic research and news articles highlighting the potential for exploitation and negative health outcomes faced by TFWs. Several groups representing the agri-food industry have taken measures to influence public opinion on these matters through media campaigns featuring websites, social media, newspaper articles, and educational materials. The research featured in this presentation addresses an absence of academic literature on this subject through critical discourse analysis. This project involves the analysis of written and oral texts on TFWs produced by agri-food groups in order to engage with industry discourse on migrant labour. Key insights include the central arguments presented by these texts, the rhetorical and stylistic choices made, and the ways these texts align or conflict with established academic literature. This research will have implications for the formation of policy surrounding agricultural TFWs and public discourse on this subject.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.677
Threshold uncertainty score0.961

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.339
Teacher spread0.292 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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