THE OFFICE
Book ID/图书代码： 03540012B58110
English Summary/英文概要： A Hardworking History
The office: for many of us, it’s where we spend more time and expend greater effort than anywhere else. Yet how many of us have stopped to think about why?
In The Office: A Hardworking History, Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space-age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity, shaped by the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, the email, the copier, the cubicle, the personal computer, the personal digital assistant.
Amid the formality, restraint and order of office life, too, he discovers a world teeming with dramas great and small, of boredom, betrayal, distraction, leisure and lust, meeting along the way such archetypes as the Whitehall mandarin, the Wall Street banker, the Dickensian clerk, the Japanese salaryman, the French bureaucrat, and the Soviet official.
In doing so, Haigh taps a rich lode of art and cinema, fiction and folklore, visiting the workplaces imagined by Hawthorne and Heller, Kafka and Kurosawa, Balzac and Wilder, and visualised from Mary Tyler Moore to Mad Men, from Network to 9 to 5—plus, of course, The Office. Far from simply being a place we visit to earn a living, the office emerges as a way of seeing the entire world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一段关于勤奋工作的历史。
对于很多人来说，办公室是我们花费更多时间以及耗费更多精力的地方。但是有多少人停下来想一想其中的原因何在。
在《办公室：一部关于勤奋工作的历史》这部作品中，吉迪恩.黑格从商人和和尚的出现，追溯到纽约市金光闪闪的玻璃大厦以及太空时代硅谷那些榨人血汗的工厂，掌握了一笔关于发明创新的文化遗产，这包括电话、打字机、电梯、电邮、复印机、控制室、个人电脑以及个人数字助理。
在充满礼节、约束和秩序的办公室生活中，作者发现了一个五味杂陈的戏剧世界，那里有烦恼，有背叛，有干扰，有消遣，也有欲望。现实生活中的白宫政客、华尔街的银行家、Dickensian的职员、日本的工薪阶层、法国的官僚以及苏联高官就是作者的创作原型。
为了完成本书的创作，黑格广泛涉猎文学艺术，研习小说和民俗，访问霍桑、海勒、卡夫卡、黑泽明、巴扎克以及伍尔德想象中的工厂，将《玛丽.泰勒.摩尔秀》、《广告狂人》视觉化。办公室不仅仅是我们谋生的地方，而且还是我们观察整个世界的窗口。(XMM)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 吉迪恩.黑格出生于伦敦，定居在墨尔本，已有30多年记者职业生涯，广泛撰写有关经济、体育的报道。《办公室：一部关于勤奋工作的历史》是其第25部作品。Gideon Haigh Born in London and based in Melbourne, Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for almost thirty years, and written widely on business, sport, both and neither. The Office is his twenty-fifth book.
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