02295cam a2200397 i 4500 119816 119816 BJBSDDR 20230805181449.0 ta 131022s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng 9780385536578 (hardcover) DLC spa DLC eng pcc HF 5547 S264c 2014 651.09 23 Saval, Nikil Cubed : a secret history of the workplace / Nikil Saval. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2014] ix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index. The clerking class -- The birth of the office -- The white blouse revolution -- Inside the skyscraper -- Organization men and women -- Open plans -- Space invaders -- The office of the future -- The office and its ends. "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. Offices History. Oficinas Historia 31087 Clerks History. Empleados 31089 Office management History. Office layout History. Diseño de oficina 31088 Office buildings History. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-06-30 0 HF 5547 S264c 2014 00000122315 2023-06-30 00:00:00 1 2023-06-30 BK