Sex, Race & Sacrifice: Union Organizers in the New Labour Movement
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<p>The rallying cry to 'organize the unorganized' is a key part of the new labour movement's rebirth in Canada and the United States of America. Thus, unions have begun to expand their organizing departments with an eye to hiring organizers that 'match' their target membership. However, an in-depth examination of the experiences of racialized and White women organizers in particular, has not been conducted and taking into consideration that women and racialized workers are key to labour renewal, their experiences as union staff are hugely significant. These experiences serve as an entry point into a larger anti-racist and feminist analysis of new labour.</p> <p>While the new social movement union principles include diversity, worker empowerment and militancy, and democracy and it takes pains to distinguish itself from the old type of business unionism with its hierarchical structures and focus on seiVic8s, the new labour movement conflates the differences between it and the old business union model which masks its undermining of these principles. The new labour movement justifies its inconsistent behaviours in a context of crisis that is defined purely in terms of numbers. The crisis mentality intersects with structural inequalities to further marginalize racialized and White women organizers, who have been 'brought' into the new labour movement on a platform of union renewal, and creates an environment in which such women may self-censor and sacrifice themselves for a perceived common good. This ultimately undermines the union renewal project as a whole.</p>
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".