Cubed The Secret History of the Workplace

Name: Cubed The Secret History of the Workplace
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ISBN: 9780345802804

ISBN-10: 0345802802

ISBN-13: 9780345802804

Edition: 2014

Authors: Nikil Saval

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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:…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/6/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.95" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Nikil Saval is an associate editor of n+1.