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This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work. It explores social and economic relations, and it traces the evolution of work and the environment and equipment needed to support it over the last four hundred years.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures
About the author
Foreword by Jeremy Myerson
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Perspectives on offices Part I 1670-1770: building blocks of the office economyChapter 2 The basis of trading Chapter 3 A new economy of mercantilist capitalism Part II 1770-1870: bank house to office buildingChapter 4 Banking business Chapter 5 Clerking: laborious and monotonous Chapter 6 Offices take shape Part III 1870-1945: the white collar factoryChapter 7 A new organisation of society Chapter 8 Gentleman all-rounder to office worker Chapter 9 The machine age Chapter 10 Cultural and rational filing cases Part IV 1945-1990: the corporate officeChapter 11 Blitz to Big Bang Chapter 12 New environments for working Chapter 13 Three centuries of change: from clerk to nomad Part V 1990 onwards: the digital office and beyondChapter 14 The digital office Chapter 15 The office in the network era
About the author
Rob Harris is a consultant and analyst in the commercial real estate sector, where he has spent over three decades advising developers, investors, occupiers and public sector bodies. He established Ramidus Consulting Limited in 2003 as a specialist, independent built environment research and advisory business. Rob presents widely on a range of property market issues.
Summary
This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work. It explores social and economic relations, and it traces the evolution of work and the environment and equipment needed to support it over the last four hundred years.
