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200 10$aWork hard and you shall be rewarded $eurban folklore from the paperwork empire /$fAlan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aDetroit $cWayne State University Press$dc1992
215   $a1 online resource (249 p.)
225 1 $aHumor in Life and Letters Series
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 08$a0-8143-2432-0 
327   $a""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""TRADITIONAL LETTERS""; ""DEFINITIONS AND PRINCIPLES""; ""NOVEL NOTICES AND MEMORABLE MEMOS""; ""APPLICATIONS AND TESTS""; ""FOLK CARTOONS AND DRAWINGS""; ""THE EXTENDED DOUBLE ENTENDRE""; ""CONCLUSIONS""
330   $aAnyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are bound together by their unhappy experiences in battling "the system," whether that system is the machinery of government or the office where one works. The wonderfully expressive materials in this book-chain letters, memoranda, notices, and cartoons-touch upon every major controversy of urban America: racism, sex, politics, automation, alienation, welfare, the women's movement, military mentality, and office bureaucracy. The humor of the materials pinpoints the ills and frustrations of modern society and becomes, in turn, an escape from them.
410  0$aHumor in Life and Letters Series
606   $aOffice practice$zUnited States$xFolklore
606   $aUrban folklore$zUnited States
606   $aAmerican wit and humor
607   $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1971-
615  0$aOffice practice$xFolklore.
615  0$aUrban folklore
615  0$aAmerican wit and humor.
676   $a398.2/0973/091732
700   $aDundes$b Alan$0483932
701   $aPagter$b Carl R.$f1934-$0701116
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906   $aBOOK
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