Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace

Name: Cubed A Secret History of the Workplace
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ISBN: 9780385536578

ISBN-10: 0385536577

ISBN-13: 9780385536578

Edition: 2014

Authors: Nikil Saval

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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Yes it does, and 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 wood-lined corner office 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 clerical workers were called "clerks"--they were all men and they did their paperwork in the corners of dark workspaces and were considered questionable dandies. But as the great historical shifts from…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/22/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.540

Nikil Saval is an associate editor of n+1.