Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded

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Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded is written by Alan Dundes and published by Wayne State University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0814337414 (ISBN 10) and 9780814337417 (ISBN 13).

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.