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Swimming in the steno pool : a retro guide to making it in the office
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Swimming in the steno pool : a retro guide to making it in the office / Lynn Peril.
ISBN
9780393338546 (pbk.)
0393338541 (pbk.)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.
Physical Description
x, 291 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Summary
Author-secretary Peril profiles the various incarnations of the secretary, from pliable, sexy mate of the "office husband" to postfeminist executive-in-training, drawing inspiration from a wide range of "femorabilia" and secretarial guidebooks of yesteryear.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 03, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: out of the kitchen and into the office : the birth of the secretary
So you want to be a secretary : preparing for and getting a job
You're in the office now, miss sec : the fine arts of charm, etiquette, and getting along with others
Your boss : his care and (ego) feeding
Single secs, married secs, and the looming shadow of the office wife
Around the desk we go : the murky world of love and sex in the office
Stepping stone or millstone? : up the ladder and out of the steno pool
Get your own damn coffee : the liberated secretary
The space-age typing pool : the secretary and technology
Epilogue
the virtual secretary in a paperless office, or, we've come a long way; maybe?.
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