About the Book: Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
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 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