Sam Schirvar

PhD Candidate at Penn / post-1945 US & Indigenous history: political economy, development, labor, technology / Mostly a lurker on here

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It was such a gift to present at SHOT last month on my birthday with this stellar roundtable 🥳

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@Iguanapri Thanks Fabian!

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Thank you to CBI for this honor!

[Jeffrey Yost @JustCodeCulture]

Congrats to @SamSchirvar, UPenn, ABD in the History & Soc. of Sci. , the 2024 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Award recipient for his '23 article “Machinery for Managers: Secretaries, Psychologists, and ‘Human-Computer Interaction’, 1973-1983." https://t.co/6QSWVcosjI

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The article was published open-access and is available for free here: https://t.co/gxwq3hTsOF

[GETUP-UAW Local 5124 @GETUPgrads]

WE WON! This week, over 2000 Penn grad workers cast ballots. After eligible votes were tallied, the final count was 1807 to 97. It's official. The majority of eligible voters turned out to the polls. Penn graduate workers have resoundingly declared: WE WANT A UNION AT PENN!

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Four years ago during the early months of COVID, Penn grad workers, almost all of whom had no organizing experience, started huddling on zoom. Last week, we won our election for what AFL-CIO found to be the largest new private sector union in Philly history!

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"'This battle was hard-fought, and every single worker who made time to organize played a part in this victory,' said Sam Schirvar, a graduate worker at Penn."

https://t.co/104OoZQQOX

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@BethLinker @JRMLocklear Thanks Beth!

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#OAH24 please join us Saturday at 1:30pm for this terrific panel on Indigenous economic and labor history assembled by @JRMLocklear and me.

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@mysdick @JRMLocklear Thanks Steph!

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This is one of the first articles to historically analyze HCI using archival research. I would be especially interested in thoughts from readers in that interdisciplinary community. And yes, it does open with a Dolly Parton epigraph!

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My BJHS Themes article based on research I conducted prior to my dissertation is now available, open access. Essentially, I argue that the changing gender and status of text editing work with computers during the 1980s shaped early research in #HCI. https://t.co/ODZPOZFDSH

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SHOT! We hope you will join us on Saturday morning at 10:45am for this fantastic panel on flows of labor, capital, and commodities in the electronics industry #SHOT2023

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We told the Secretary that we believe building strong and strike-ready unions is one of the best ways to hold powerful institutions accountable!

[GETUP-UAW Local 5124 @GETUPgrads]

GETUP-UAW organizers met today with Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su as part of a group of Philadelphia higher ed and hospital workers organizing in unions at our workplaces. Philly is a city of education and healthcare workers, and the Department of Labor has our backs!

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...between large manufacturers, federal agencies, tribal governments, and community development organizations in the US. As a teaser, we’ll start by considering the many questions raised by this 1986 IBM advertisement.

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On Tuesday April 4 at 4pm ET, I’ll be giving the (online) Tomash Lecture at the Charles Babbage Institute. For more info and registration: https://t.co/G5zaAqlOgo. We’ll follow a winding path through the postwar computer industry and think about the changing relationships...

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@gustavelester congratulations!!

[M Dirkson @Philadelphian91]

Some of the hardest working historians in the game! #AHA23 @nellstra @AshleyDDennis @SamSchirvar @LorienTinuviel and Andrea Morales Loucil

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Join us at #AHA23 Friday morning!

[Charlotte E. Rosen @CharlotteERosen]

AHA folks: really psyched to be a part of "Urban Crisis Reconsidered: Racial Capitalism, Punishment, and Resistance in Postwar Philadelphia" feat @Philadelphian91 @SamSchirvar @a_m_ribeiro, w/ comments from @mcountryman14! Jan 6th 10:30 AM, see you there. #AHA23

[M Dirkson @Philadelphian91]

Excited that @AHAhistorians is coming to my city for the #AHA23 conference and I will be presenting on these panels with my friends and some amazing historians: @a_m_ribeiro, @AshleyDDennis, @buffaloabby, @CharlotteERosen, @comebackcities, @mcountryman14 and @SamSchirvar

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@BabintsevaK Such good news, congratulations!!