The filing cabinet : a vertical history of information - Robertson, Craig, 1969- (Minneapolis, MN ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Introduction: The Efficient Work of Paperwork -- Part 1. The Cabinet 1. Verticality: A Skyscraper for the Office -- 2. Integrity: A Steel Container for Paper -- 3. Cabinet Logic: Efficiency Through Partitions -- Part II. Filing 4. Granular Certainty: Applying System to the Office -- 5. Automatic Filing: Delegating Memory for the Machine -- 6. The Ideal File Clerk: Controlling Gender in the Office -- 7. Domestic Storage: Cabinet Logic in the Home -- Afterword: Out of Time, Out of Place.
Includes bibliographical notes (p. 265-300) and index (p. 301-313).
Keywords: Filing cabinets; Sex role in the work environment -- United States -- History; Sexual division of labor -- United States -- History