IBM's World Citizens: Valentim Bouças and the Politics of IT Expansion in Authoritarian Brazil

Perold, Colette

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“…76 At the same time, the phenomenon of capital flight (more colloquially called "globalization") has relocated portions of scientific labor to places where workers may have fewer legal protections or where the state can be better trusted to defend multinational capital. 77 Similarly, lab techs, graduate workers, and other workers within the ecosystems of research universities have formed unions and waged strikes over issues such as hourly wages and guaranteed cost-of-living increases. 78 A labor history of science that attends to the various solidarities and antagonisms that organize work and society reciprocally must also recognize that the competing interests of capital and labor are as operative in the realm of science as in other sectors of economic activity.…”

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Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities

Roberts,

Rockman,

Hui

2023

Hist Sci

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This article offers suggestions for what a labor history of science might look like and what it might accomplish. It does so by first reviewing how historians of science have analyzed the history of both “science as labor” and “science and labor” since the 1930s. It then moves on to discuss recent historiographical developments in both the history of science and labor history that together provide an analytical frame for further research. The article ends by projecting into the future, considering how a labor history of science might help us grapple with connecting our understanding of the past with the challenges of today and tomorrow.

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Section: The Political Economy Of Science As/and Labormentioning

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Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities

Roberts,

Rockman,

Hui

2023

Hist Sci

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“…There were three award winners this year. The Mahoney Prize for best article in the history of computing was awarded to Colette Perold for "IBM's World Citizens: Valentim Bouças and the Politics of IT Expansion in Authoritarian Brazil [4]." Due to having skipped the Computer History Museum Prize last year, two awards were given this year, to Gerardo Con Diaz, for his book Software Rights: How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America, and to Morgan G. Ames, for her book The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child [5].…”

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Report on SIGCIS 2021: Online Edition

Petrick

Hemmendinger²

2021

IEEE Annals Hist. Comput.

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he Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) held its annual meeting on September 23-25, 2021. SIGCIS usually holds a one-day event after the annual meeting of its parent society, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). For only the second time in its history, SIGCIS held an independent meeting this year and, this time, did so virtually [1]. The organizing committee, Laine Nooney, Stephanie Dick, Morgan Ames, and Xiaochang Li, decided on this model to create some sense of certainty during all the uncertainty of the pandemic, as many other societies have been forced to change their in-person plans and move online in the end [2]. Zoom was chosen as the meeting platform, due to its familiarity and accessibility options, with real-time captioning and password-protected recording of talks. Conference attendees made good use of some of the few possibilities for informal and group communication during virtual conferences, by staying in the Zoom room in between panels for open, unrecorded discussion time and by taking advantage of the chat function to share panelists' publications, comment on aspects of the talks, raise questions, and engage in more social communication. While not the same as in-person coffee break chats in the hallways, many attendees commented that this conference was able to capture the feel of community interaction.SIGCIS received a record number of paper proposals: 55 individual papers and 10 full panels or roundtables. Switching from a one-day three-stream event to a three-day one-stream event also allowed for an increase in total panels, from the typical ten at an in-person SIGCIS to 13 this year. Even so, due to the increase in submissions, it was also the lowest acceptance rate in SIGCIS history, of only 35% of proposals. The panelists were disciplinarily and

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Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2021

2021

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IBM's World Citizens: Valentim Bouças and the Politics of IT Expansion in Authoritarian Brazil

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Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities

Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities

Report on SIGCIS 2021: Online Edition

Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2021

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