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Cubed : a secret history of the workplace / Nikil Saval.
Lippincott Library HF5547 .S33 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saval, Nikil, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Offices--History.
- Offices.
- Clerks--History.
- Clerks.
- Office management--History.
- Office management.
- Office layout--History.
- Office layout.
- Office buildings--History.
- Office buildings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2014]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The clerking class
- The birth of the office
- The white-blouse revolution
- Up the skyscraper
- Organization men and women
- Open plans
- Space invaders
- The office of the future
- The office and its ends.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780385536578
- 0385536577
- 9780345802804
- 0345802802
- OCLC:
- 862041371
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