• Elkie Dee earn to be a highly.
_skilled super-doormat in nine months! Train to be a top secre tary!
Many textbooks and information packs for secretarial students are designed to brainwash young women into believing that the pinnacie of achievementintre s sen caree s*e as every whim c'a it? portant man, such as te managing director of a company.
One booklet suggests ness. that a secretary's job is to enable her boss 'to do his job with maximum ef ing, ficiency so that 'The secretary will win, ine manager will win, the company will win and as a result the country force the should win'.
Be a patriotic secretary, a servant to your country and to the greater glory of capital- cIenTIV. ism. This is how trainee secretaries and office staff are taught to forget their own interests as workers and to see work in terms of personal self- ren. development towards te-gesere see: maragerer: == :=Besides typing, shorthand and word processratrer =- amany college courses include subjects ciass. like business studies The bosses neec me and management appre servants to think ther re ciation, designed to rein- part of tner siae, now te idea of the get funny ioining trade unions and benefits of the tree mar ket and train secretaries demanding rights. in methods of exploiting Yet most secretaries. other workers more effi- typists and otner once workers are women, All this is designed to often in very low-paid make students believe jobs. what it is in the interests They are subjected to of the bosses, owners of physical health hazards big business, the ruling chen as negoacres.
damage to Offine work has tradi. backache, Repetitive =- =3 =.• 36= e5:= .00= 200385 cs = =0-3": tomator smssaco: ideas about like the came tra ans about safety it: of ce workers were fought for pv office workers orgarr ised in trade unions. Secretarial students and others on vocational courses need to ask lots of questions and learn how to organise and stand up for themselves eyesight, collectively, in readiness for when they get jobs.
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