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**You mean this place we go to five days a week has a __history__? __Cubed__ reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to __The Office__, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, __Cubed__ is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is—and what it might become.**In the mid-nineteenth century clerks worked in small, dank spaces called “counting-houses.” These were all-male enclaves, where work was just paperwork. Most Americans considered clerks to be questionable dandies, who didn’t do “real work.” But the joke was on them: as the great historical shifts from agricultural to industrial economies took place, and then from industrial to information economies, the organization of the workplace evolved along with them—and the clerks took over. Offices became rationalized, designed for both greater efficiency in the accomplishments of clerical work and the enhancement of worker productivity. Women entered the office by the millions, and revolutionized the social world from within. Skyscrapers filled with

Who reads Cubed : A Secret History of the Workplace?

Author

Nikil Saval

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385536585

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Management, Science

Rating

3.44 / 5 (659 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13