Saval, Nikil.

Cubed : a secret history of the workplace / Nikil Saval.

First edition.

New York : Doubleday, [2014]

ix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"Man is born free, but he is everywhere in cubicles." How did we get from Scrooge's office to "Office Space"? From bookkeepers in dark countinghouses to freelancers in bright cafes? What would the world be like without the vertical file cabinet? What would the world be like without the office at all? In Cubed, Nikil Saval chronicles the evolution of the office in a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is. Drawing on the history of architecture and business, as well as a host of pop culture artifacts -- from Mad Men to Dilbert (and, yes, The Office) -- and ranging in time from the earliest clerical houses to the surprisingly utopian origins of the cubicle to the funhouse campuses of Silicon Valley, Cubed is an all-encompassing investigation into the way we work, why we do it the way we do (and often don't like it), and how we might do better. - Publisher.
Drawing from popular books, movies, comic strips and an abundance of management literature and business history, this surprising "secret history" shows how the white-collar world came to be, from the mid-19th century to today, and reveals what it might become.

9780385536578 (hardcover)
0385536577 (hardcover)
(ebook)
9780385536585
9780345802804 (pbk.)
0345802802 (pbk.)

Offices History.
Clerks History.
Office management History.
Office layout History.
Office buildings History.
Bureaux Histoire.
Employés de bureau Histoire.
Bureaux Organisation Histoire.
Bureaux Aménagement Histoire.
Immeubles de bureaux Histoire.
HISTORY / Social History.
Clerks
Office buildings
Office layout
Office management
Offices
Büro
Bürohaus
Büroeinrichtung
Büroorganisation
Büroangestellter
Büroarbeit
Arbeitspsychologie

Nonfiction.
History

Lambert, Phyllis

Location: Library main 286108
Call No.: HF5547 .S33 2014
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available