How do oil and gas workers cope with a changing economy? Economic vulnerability among rural Canadians in the oil and gas sector
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Significant changes in the energy sector are needed to remedy the growing threat of climate change. Oil and gas workers are a critical social actor in this problem; however, further research is needed to understand the nuances of their perspectives on transitioning to renewable energies. We generated qualitative data with oil and gas workers in a Canadian oil capital to explore their perceptions about economic diversity and answer the research question: how do oil and gas workers cope with a changing economy? Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis and a critical posthumanism theoretical orientation. We found two interrelated themes that answer our research question and are pertinent to a key concept in critical posthumanism (‘becoming’): insulating from economic volatility and departing from inter-generational identities. A concern for children and families' futures was evident in both themes. Our findings suggest a need to overcome polarization associated with the fossil fuel industry and instead, focus on local economic support for oil and gas workers who foresee a departure from the industry that is deeply entangled with their communities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".