Udin, Bessie (audio interview #1 of 1)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
SUBJECT BIO - Bessie Udin had a short-lived, but very active involvement in organizing women clothing workers in Massachusetts in the 1910s. Born in a small town in Lithuania, where she lived in a Jewish ghetto. She was exposed to revolutionary ideology during the abortive 1905 Russian Revolution. She immigrated in 1916, initially joining her brother in Canada, where she got a job in a clothing factory. After a little more than a year, she joined the rest of her family in Boston. There, she was introduced more directly to labor organizing and became a grass roots organizer after she attended a conference of the Women's Trade Union League in 1912. Attracted by the industrial unionism of the IWW, following her participation in the 1913 strike of the Boston Waistmakers, she went to a small town in Massachusetts (Malden?) to help the IWW organize. After she married in 1915 and had her first child in 1916, she moved away from the city and dropped out. In the mid-1920s she became more active in radical groups like the Friends of the Soviet Union and the International Labor Defense. \nINTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - Bessie Udin was interviewed in her home in Claremont in December, 1974, referred to the Feminist History Research Project by a mutual acquaintance. Although she repeatedly belittled how important her story was, she was cooperative and interested in the project. \nTOPICS - family background and history; father's work history; Jewish community and life in Lithuania; immigration to US; garment work in New Brunswick, Canada; work in shirtwaist industry in Boston; political and social influences; 1905 Russian Revolution; 1913 Shirtwaist Workers strike in Boston; work force demographics; working conditions; WTUL National Conference; organizing dressmakers on behalf of the IWW in Malden; attitude towards WTUL, AFL and IWW; radical activities;IWW organizing; dressmakers strike in Malden, Massachusetts; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; Friends of the Soviet Union; International Fraternal Order Insurance Commission; Jewish Fraternal Order; International Labor Defense; delegation to 1912 WTUL National Conference; working-class attitudes towards WTUL: Boston Waistmakers and Dressmakers strike, 1913; working conditions, wages and hours; marital relationship; birth control; abortion;
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.022 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".