Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Londons Global Office Economy From Clerical Factory To Digital Hub
Author(s): Harris Rob
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367646721
Pages: 360 Pages, 50 Line Drawings, Black And White; 47 Halftones, Black And White; 97 Illustrations, Black
Publication Date: 4/8/2021
Category: Economic History