The Office

A Hardworking History

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Gideon Haigh

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In The Office: A Hardworking History, Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity, shaped by the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, the email, the copier, the cubicle, the personal computer, the personal digital assistant. Amid the formality, restraint and order of office life, too, he discovers a world teeming with dramas great and small, of boredom, betrayal, distraction, discrimination, leisure and lust, meeting along the way such archetypes as the Whitehall mandarin and the Wall Street banker. Far from simply being a place we visit to earn a living, the office emerges as a way of seeing the entire world.

Author Biography:

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist almost thirty years, and written widely on business, sport, both and neither. The Office is his twenty-fifth book.

Release date Australia

May 1st, 2012

Author

Gideon Haigh

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

624

Dimensions

182x233x45

ISBN-13

9780522855562

Product ID

19745122

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