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Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded
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Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are bound together by their unhappy experiences in battling "the system," whether that system is the machinery of government or the office where one works. The wonderfully expressive materials in this book—chain letters, memoranda, notices, and cartoons—touch upon every major controversy of urban America: racism, sex, politics, automation, alienation, welfare, the women's movement, military mentality, and office bureaucracy. The humor of the materials pinpoints the ills and frustrations of modern society and becomes, in turn, an escape from them. | Traditional
Letters Definitions and Principles Novel Notices and Memorable Memos Applications and Tests Folk Cartoons and Drawings The Extended Double Entendre 
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in Life and Letters Series $21.95l paper / ISBN 0-8143-2432-0 224 pages 50 illustrations 1992 (1975 by Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter) |
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