Main entry:

Robertson, Craig, 1969- author.

Title & Author:

The filing cabinet : a vertical history of information / Craig Robertson.

Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]

Description:

xiii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the efficient work of paperwork -- Part I. The cabinet -- 1. Verticality: a skyscraper for the office -- 2. Integrity: paper's steel enclosure -- 3. Cabinet logic: efficiency through partitions -- Part II. Filing -- 4. Granular certainty: applying system to the office -- 5. Automatic filing: memory for the machine -- 6. The ideal file clerk: controlling gender in the office -- 7. Domestic storage: cabinet logic in the home -- Afterword: out of time, out of place.

Summary:

"Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used. The filing cabinet emerges here as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today's digital world"-- Provided by publisher

ISBN:

1517909465 (paperback)
9781517909468 (paperback)
1517909457 (hardcover)
9781517909451 (hardcover)

Subject:

Filing cabinets.
Sex role in the work environment United States History.
Sexual division of labor United States History.
Classeurs.
Rôle selon le sexe en milieu de travail États-Unis Histoire.
filing cabinets.
Sex role in the work environment.
Sexual division of labor.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309871
Call No.: BIB 255014
Status: Available