Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace

Nikil Saval, Stephen Hoye

eAudio - 2014

You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is—and what it might become.In the mid-nineteenth century clerks worked in small, dank spaces called “counting-houses.” These were all-male enclaves, where work was just paperwork. Most Americans considered clerks to be questionable dandies, who didn’t do “real work.” But the joke was on them: as the great historical... shifts from agricultural to industrial economies took place, and then from industrial to information economies, the organization of the workplace evolved along with them—and...

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Language
English
Main Authors
Nikil Saval, Stephen Hoye
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File Size361 GB
ISBN9780804190985
Release Date4/22/2014