To Seize the Means of Production or the Means of Destruction : Temperance, Prohibition, and British Columbia’s Working Class
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis approaches opinions on temperance and prohibition among early twentieth-century British Columbia’s working-class considering scholarship on temperance as an international progressive movement, rather than a moral reform movement. ‘Temperance activism’ has long been deployed by oppressed populations across the world in response to oppressors’ use of alcohol as a tool of domination, subjugation, and exploitation. Leaders of oppressed populations have harnessed temperance to promote organization in resistance movements against their oppressors, as well as to economically starve them. Harsh conditions for British Columbia’s working class led them to organize and engage in politics to resist capitalist oppression. This thesis seeks to determine whether the leaders among the working class who were devoted to improving working-class lives viewed temperance activism and prohibition of alcohol as a tool in overcoming capitalist oppression, despite the general unpopularity of prohibition among the working class. To answer this question, I look to working-class publications and working-class organizations’ official stances on the question of prohibition in an attempt to locate temperance activism.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".