Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Summer issue of the Journal begins with an article by Simon Berge and Koudima Bokoumbo which explores the potential for worker co-operatives to provide social care in Canada.Care of the elderly in Canada follows a pattern that many readers will be familiar with: an ageing population with significant care needs, shareholder-owned care providers who prioritise profit, and personal support workers (PSWs) who are leaving the sector due to a combination of low pay, long working hours, and poor working conditions.Berge and Bokoumbo present an exploratory study of a newlyformed home care workers' co-operative set up by PSWs in Canada who were disenchanted with the current social care model.Although the study is small scale and exploratory, the initial findings suggest that the PSW co-operators are experiencing greater empowerment and engagement in their work than those who are in shareholder-owned providers.This paper is a continuation of the discussion about co-operatives and social care (Bird et al., 2022), inspired by Birchall's (2022) observations about the future of the co-operative movement.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.003 |
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".