Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Peril, Lynn.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.

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Details

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.

Subject

• Secretaries
• Vocational qualifications

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-272) 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?.

ISBN

• 9780393338546 (pbk.)
• 0393338541 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010044289

OCLC

• 668194767
• SCSB-12430904

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library