A History of the Office and Office Work

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.

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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.

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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 economy

Chapter 2 The basis of trading

Chapter 3 A new economy of mercantilist capitalism

Part II 1770-1870: bank house to office building

Chapter 4 Banking business

Chapter 5 Clerking: laborious and monotonous

Chapter 6 Offices take shape

Part III 1870-1945: the white collar factory

Chapter 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 office

Chapter 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 beyond

Chapter 14 The digital office

Chapter 15 The office in the network era