Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace

In the mid-nineteenth century clerical workers were called "clerks"--exclusively male, they did their paperwork in the corners of dark workspaces and were considered narrow-chested questionable dandies. But 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. In Cubed, n+1 editor and obedient cube-dweller Nikil Saval opens our eyes to what is truly a "secret history" of changes so obvious and ubiquitous that we've hardly noticed them. From Frederick Taylor, the management scientist Moneyball-man of the industrial age, to Dilbert, to the utopian B