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London's Global Office Economy - From Clerical Factory to Digital Hub (Paperback)
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London's Global Office Economy - From Clerical Factory to Digital Hub (Paperback)
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London's Global Office Economy: From Clerical Factory to Digital
Hub is a timely and comprehensive study of the office from the very
beginnings of the workplace to its post-pandemic future. The book
takes the reader on a journey through five ages of the office,
encompassing sixteenth-century coffee houses and markets,
eighteenth-century clerical factories, the corporate offices
emerging in the nineteenth, to the digital and network offices of
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While offices might
appear ubiquitous, their evolution and role in the modern economy
are among the least explained aspects of city development.
One-third of the workforce uses an office; and yet the buildings
themselves - their history, design, construction, management and
occupation - have received only piecemeal explanation, mainly in
specialist texts. This book examines everything from paper clips
and typewriters, to design and construction, to workstyles and
urban planning to explain the evolution of the 'office economy'.
Using London as a backdrop, Rob Harris provides built environment
practitioners, academics, students and the general reader with a
fascinating, illuminating and comprehensive perspective on the
office. Readers will find rich material linking fields that are
normally treated in isolation, in a story that weaves together the
pressures exerting change on the businesses that occupy office
space with the motives and activities of those who plan, supply and
manage it. Our unfolding understanding of offices, the changes
through which they have passed, the nature of office work itself
and its continuing evolution is a fascinating story and should
appeal to anyone with an interest in contemporary society and its
relationship with work.
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