The Enormous File
Details:
- Author(s) Delgado, Alan
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1979
- Pages 120pp; illus
- Publisher John Murray
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Information: creation, collection & processing
- Name Business administration inc procedures, processes, premises, etc
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
An early history of the office, its functions and its workers and their interrelationship, explored in particular through the perspective of changing information technology. Popular presentation by a writer on, inter alia, social history. Chapters include: 'The office'; 'The male clerk and some others'; 'The female typewriter'; 'The boss - the romance and reality'; 'Abacus to pocket calculator'; 'The enormous file'; 'Power - and when the storm runs out'