Discover how offices of the 20th century evolved—from workers to technology—through historical photographs.
In the 1870s, a tiny fraction of the United States population worked in offices, mostly men. Fifty years later, a third of the labor force was made of office workers, half of them women. The transformed workplace featured open-plan designs and rapidly evolving technology. But, even by the 1930s, it was still overwhelmingly white.
Bjelopera found that virtually no Black workers were employed by white-owned firms in the city in 1912, a situation that was reflected nationwide.Clerks seated at ranks of identical desks dominate this 1915 photograph of a Washington, D.C. office. A male supervisor stands on the left overseeing the work. The workstation arrangement reflects a new office culture that, from 1910, surveilled its workers following the principles of Frederick Winslow Taylor.
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