Swimming in the steno pool : a retro guide to making it in the office
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Swimming in the steno pool : a retro guide to making it in the office
- Jaar:
- 2011
- Onderwerp:
- Secretaries
Vocational qualifications
Bureautica
Secretaresse
Steno - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2011
- Plaatsnummer:
- INDUS.DRUK-227 (Industriemuseum)
- ISBN:
- 9780393338546
- Paginering:
- X, 291 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Editie:
- 1st ed.
- Samenvatting:
- 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., 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?.
- Nota:
- Bibliografische referenties ; index
- Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/cgw01:000794865
