a| 2010044289

a| 9780393338546 q| pbk.

a| (OCoLC)ocn668194767

a| Peril, Lynn

a| Swimming in the steno pool : b| a retro guide to making it in the office / c| Lynn Peril.

a| 1st ed.

a| New York : b| W.W. Norton & Co., c| 2011.

a| X, 291 p. : b| ill. ; c| 21 cm.

a| Bibliografische referenties ; index

a| 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?.

a| 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.

a| Secretaries. 2| z

a| Vocational qualifications. 2| z

a| Bureautica.

a| Secretaresse.

a| Steno.

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