Craig Robertson: The Filing Cabinet

Cover: 9781517909468 | The Filing Cabinet | A Vertical History of Information | Robertson

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Beschreibung

The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used. Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information. Robertsonâ¿s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an âautomatic memoryâ? machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about womenâ¿s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in todayâ¿s digital world.

Über den Autor

Craig Robertson is associate professor of media studies at Northeastern University and author of The Passport in America: The History of a Document.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface: Discovering the Power of the Filing Cabinet

Introduction: Making Paper Work Efficiently

Part 1. The Cabinet

1. Verticality: A Skyscraper for the Office

2. Integrity: A Steel Container for Paper

3. Cabinet Logic: A Structure for Efficiency and Information

Part II. Filing

4. Granular Certainty: Bringing System to the Office

5. Automatic Filing: Delegating Memory to a Machine

6. The Ideal File Clerk: Controlling Work in the Office

7. Planned Storage: Domesticating Cabinet Logic

Afterword: File Cabinets, Out of Time and Out of Place

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781517909468
ISBN-10:	1517909465
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Robertson, Craig
Hersteller:	University of Minnesota Press
Maße:	228 x 154 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Craig Robertson
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.05.2021
Gewicht:	0,52 kg

Artikel-ID: 119590969