L'arnaque du marchand : Relations de crédit et administration du chômage durant la Grande Dépression
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Abstract
Abstract: Montbeillard, Québec, mai 1934 : des chômeurs établis comme colons sous le plan Gordon entrent dans le magasin général de la colonie et forcent le commis à « marquer » leur commande. Cet acte est celui du dernier recours, une révolte face aux contrecoups d'une politique d'assistance insuffisante et d'une incapacité à obtenir du crédit. Le ton et le langage que déploient les colons rejoignent ceux de nombreux autres témoignages de résistance dont nous disposons. Embrassant souvent des formes plus discrètes, ces actes attestent une volonté de contester un libéralisme qui, dans ces territoires éloignés des centres, s'exprime avec peu d'entraves et se traduit par des abus, de l'exploitation et du favoritisme. Cet article, qui s'arrête sur la décennie 1930, analyse les relations de crédit dans ces périphéries où se combinent d'anciennes et de nouvelles pratiques introduites par les « pitons » du chômage. Nous plongeant dans le quotidien de ces relations, il documente l'économie morale portée par les familles à travers les moyens, subtils comme ouverts, qu'elles prennent pour faire respecter les normes devant les protéger. Ancré dans une approche empirique, il ouvre une fenêtre sur le caractère complexe que revêtent ces normes dans des communautés où la proximité favorise autant l'exploitation et la domination que des manifestations de solidarité. Abstract: Montbeillard, Quebec, May 1934: a group of unemployed settlers recipient of the Gordon Plan enters the colony's general store and forces the clerk to "mark" their order. This act is one of last resort, a revolt against the repercussions of inadequate assistance policies and an inability to obtain credit. The tone and language used by the settlers echo those of many other accounts of resistance that we have at our disposal. Often taking more discreet forms, these acts demonstrate a desire to challenge a form of liberalism which, in these remote areas, is expressed with little restraint and results in abuse, exploitation, and favouritism. This article, which focuses on the 1930s, analyzes credit relations in these peripheral areas, where old and new practices introduced by unemployment "vouchers" coexisted. Immersing us in the daily reality of these relationships, it documents the moral economy upheld by families to enforce, through subtle and overt means, the norms that protect them. Grounded in an empirical approach, it provides insight into the complex nature of these norms in communities where proximity fosters both exploitation and domination as well as expressions of solidarity.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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 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".