ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the sociological accounts of work have often been alive to the potential of space. It examines ideas of space and memory before focusing down on the workplace specifically as a site of memory. In spaces where memories are shaped into a performance of history, there is a sense of a bygone past that is foreign to the now. Attachment to space is a temporal, spatial, and cultural negotiation of place and memory. Spaces of work physically and culturally imprint communities and communities imprint on the spaces in which they work. Workspaces therefore offer a unique form of spatial remembering. They are spaces where critical reflection is made easier and transgressive discourses flourish. Through engagement with their relationship to space, we learn more about how places are given meaning and the processes in which these are made and remade.
