Andrew Jackson fonds, 1921-2007, n.d.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Andrew Jackson was as an economist with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) for 25 years, from 1989 to 2012. He was born in England in 1952 and moved to Canada in 1965 when his father, John Jackson, was appointed as the first Head of the Department of Geography at Brock University. In 1968 he joined the youth wing of the NDP after being influenced by Mel Swart, a family friend. Swart later became a highly respected NDP member of the Ontario Parliament. In 1970, Jackson moved to England to study at the London School of Economics, where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and a Master of Science Degree in Political Sociology. Upon completion of his studies in 1975, he returned to Canada and enrolled in the PhD program in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. In 1979 Jackson took a job with the British Columbia NDP caucus. Five years later, he relocated to Ottawa where his wife had taken a job with the Macdonald Royal Commission. He took a job with the federal NDP caucus as part of their research team, where he focused on economic and tax issues. He left this job in 1988 to work with the labour branch of the Canadian Labour and Productivity Centre. A year later, he went to work for the Canadian Labour Congress. His roles with the CLC included Chief Economist and later Director of Social and Economic Policy. Some of the major issues he addressed included the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax; the FTA and NAFTA; regressive tax reform; cuts to Unemployment Insurance and federal transfers to the provinces; public pensions and pensions regulation; and labour market policy, including training. During his work with the CLC, Jackson continued to be a policy advisor to the NDP caucus. He was also very active with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), writing many studies documenting adverse economic and social trends such as wealth inequality. Since his retirement, Jackson has had a regular column in the Report on Business section of the Globe and Mail, as well as being a frequent contributor to the blog of the Progressive Economics Forum. He has also written several articles and books on Canadian political and economic issues, including Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues (1st ed. 2005); Sick of the System: why the COVID-19 recovery must be revolutionary; and The Fire and the Ashes: rekindling democratic socialism (2021).
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.143 | 0.040 |
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".