How long have you spent sitting at a desk since you were born?
At school, at home, in the company ... The number is enough to make you dizzy.
“To my father, who went to the office every day of his life;
to my mother, who never went there;
to all those who, for more than three centuries, got up every morning to go there… ”
It is with these few lines that Pascal Dibie opens his
Ethnology of the office, a brief history of a seated humanity
.
It delivers a history of office life, from the scribes of Egypt to contemporary open spaces.
“On paper, it's true that at first glance, it may seem boring,”
smiles the ethnologist.
It is not so.
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This story begins in Antiquity, if we define the office as the piece of furniture and the place where we write.
On the other hand, “office life”, as we understand it today, began at the end of the reign of Louis XIV, that is to say at the beginning of the 1700s. This was the time when spaces were created. archives in order to keep the documents
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