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The office : a hardworking history / Gideon Haigh.
Publication details: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2012.Description: xiii, 609 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780522855562 (pbk.) :
- 302.35 23
- Winner of the 2013 NSW Premier's History Award.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 302.35 HAI | Available | 052910 |
Total reserves: 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 578-599) and index.
The office: for many of us, it?s where we spend more time and expend greater effort than anywhere else. Yet how many of us have stopped to think about why? In The Office: A Hardworking History, Gideon Haigh traces its origins from merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York. A lively social and cultural history blending its birth, growth and emergence as a means of organising a company, an institution or a bureaucracy to the place in which most of us spend more time than any other.
Winner of the 2013 NSW Premier's History Award.
