Interestingly, Google's n-gram viewer says that "teamwork" was at its lowest from 1970-1980: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=teamwork&year_start=1

Interestingly, Google's n-gram viewer says that "teamwork" was at its lowest from 1970-1980: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=teamwork&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cteamwork%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=teamwork&year_... It didn't regain its 1950s peak until 1990. That's also when "workplace collaboration" took off.