The filing cabinet: a vertical history of information

Introduction: the efficient work of paperwork

Part I. The cabinet

1. Verticality: a skyscraper for the office

2. Integrity: paper's steel enclosure

3. Cabinet logic: efficiency through partitions

Part II. Filing

4. Granular certainty: applying system to the office

5. Automatic filing: 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.