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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Craig, 1969- author.

Contributor:

Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filing cabinets.

Sex role in the work environment--United States--History.

Sex role in the work environment.

Sexual division of labor--United States--History.

Sexual division of labor.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE CABINET

1. Verticality: A Skyscraper for the Office

2. Integrity: Paper's Steel Enclosure

3. Cabinet Logic: Efficiency through Partitions

pt. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Robertson, Craig, 1969- The filing cabinet.

ISBN:

1517909465

9781517909468

1517909457

9781517909451

OCLC:

1201298335

Publisher Number:

99988784030