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.
- ISBN10 0253202078
- ISBN13 9780253202079
- Publish Date 28 November 1978 (first published July 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 248
- Language English