ABSTRACT
Even casual students of industrial and commercial development are aware of the importance of changes in the concept of the workplace. At one time, for example, cottage industries dominated; then, with the development of centralized power capabilities, it became not only practical but also economical to change the site of work. Many times, those changes were coerced, so attractive were they to economic elites. Suddenly, employees in huge numbers went to their work, often at considerable distances, to labor cheek-by-jowl with their colleagues. Much evidence indicates major dislocations-social, psychological, and familial-resulted from these new ways of organizing wit and will.
