PDF Crochet Fashion Scarves: Complete Instructions for 8 Projects by Margaret Hubert in Arts-Photography

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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 worlds workmdash;our workmdash;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 ismdash;and what it might become.In the mid-nineteenth century clerks worked in small; dank spaces called ldquo;counting-houses.rdquo; These were all-male enclaves; where work was just paperwork. Most Americans considered clerks to be questionable dandies; who didnrsquo;t do ldquo;real work.rdquo; 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 themmdash;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 office space came to tower over cities everywhere. Cubed opens our eyes to what is a truly "secret history" of changes so obvious and ubiquitous that weve hardly noticed them. From the wood-paneled executive suite to the advent of the cubicles where 60% of Americans now work (and 93% of them dislike it) to a not-too-distant future where we might work anywhere at any time (and perhaps all the time); Cubed excavates from popular books; movies; comic strips (Dilbert!); and a vast amount of management literature and business history; the reasons why our workplaces are the way they aremdash;and how they might be better.