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Record W4410984818 · doi:10.3138/jh-2024-0080

“Grinding Its Help:” Baltic Mills, Sprague, Connecticut

2025· article· en· W4410984818 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Barbara M. Tucker

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of History · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGrindingEngineeringMechanical engineering

Abstract

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The American Industrial Revolution began in New England, and the textile industry led the way. The first successful mill built in Pawtucket, Rhode Island adopted family labor where a division of labor based on the age and gender of the individual emerged: children worked in the mill, men worked on farms or at other traditional jobs, and most women remained in the home. By the mid nineteenth century, this labor system could be found throughout southeastern New England. Initially local rural families moved to the mill towns, and they were followed first by the Irish and then by French Canadian families. Quebec families came to dominate the labor force. They sought work in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, but initially avoided moving to Connecticut. That state had some of the largest textile mills in the country, but their factory owners had a reputation for mistreating workers, for “grinding its help.” The term was applied to the Baltic Mills in Sprague, Connecticut.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.549
Threshold uncertainty score0.907

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.003
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.258 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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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