Contesting the Crisis - CUPE, the CAW, and Third Way Neoliberalism in Ontario from 2003-2013
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research uses Gramscian claims about culture and resistance to assess the radical potential of trade unions under neoliberalism. Using a comparative case study, this research examines the implications of chosen strategies of resistance deployed by the leading public- and private-sector unions (Canadian Union of Public Employees – CUPE, and Canadian Auto Workers – CAW, respectively) during the pre- and post-Great Recession phases of the McGuinty Liberal government in Ontario. The key contributions of this work are relevant for the fields of political sociology, political economy, and labour studies. In the field of political sociology, this work finds that contesting hegemonic governance strategies requires both a resistance against opportunities for integration and incorporation and the articulation of and organization around radical and non-sectionalist (systemic) alternatives. Second, this work demonstrates how political economic considerations are contested both structurally and culturally through both organizational-institutional and ideological-symbolic interventions. Finally, this research holds implications for strategies of union renewal by analyzing the capacities and limitations of certain strategic interventions in the lead-up and aftermath of a large-scale economic crisis.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".