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Cubed: A Secret History Of The Workplace (2014)

by Nikil Saval(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385536577 (ISBN13: 9780385536578)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: I think I wanted to like this book more than I actually liked it.The first four chapters I raced through and then it just kind of got slow as molasses and I ended up skimming the back half.For all that, it's a fascinating topic and the early history just sucked me in. I may have to go back and give this one a second chance. Definitely a good read if the topic itself is interesting to you.
review 2: As is usually the case with popular histories, the subtitle is what the title probably should have been, though secret is stretching things. This is a popular history of offices (and to an extent officework) from countinghouses through co-working. Oh, and the popular bit is taken really really far. Previously popular history would touch upon the deep themes of the ... moresubject with some touching of media depictions to keep things grounded. In this book, much of the sources seem to be novels, and movies. Popular media is not just used glancingly either, entire bits of dialogue are excepted out, and novels and such are quoted at length. One can't help but feel like a teacher reading a report obviously cribbed from a watching a few movies rather than deep research. Still it is engagingly written and moves quickly enough most of the time. Strangely enough the weakest part is on the cubicle itself. The cubicle just sort of happens, and is very soon fought against without really being described or dealt with. less

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