The History of Working from Home

​Before everyone worked at the office, everyone worked from home. Kind of. Early modern cities mixed together living, work, and retail quarters.

​How did this work in practice? Why did it go away? What lessons does it offer for our own cities? 

​Join me for a conversation with Dr. Judy Stephenson about the history of working from home and mixed-use cities. 

​Judy Stephenson is Associate Professor at University College London, specializing in the history of labor markets and the built environment. In addition, Judy is a research associate at both the Oxford Centre for Economic and Social History and The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and a Director at the Long Run Institute. Her insights have been featured by The Economist, Financial Times, and beyond. 

​Judy’s upcoming book, Wages before Machines, explores salaries and bargaining in the pre-industrial world.