Caroline Bird

A collection of zesty, idiosyncratic and formally delightful poems, 'Trouble Came to the Turnip' explores fairy tale, fantasy and the bittersweet world of romance with humour and originality.

Caroline Bird offers a pragmatic, sensible guide for women longing to escape from that low-pay, dead-end job in the secretarial ghetto—but she assumes a certain amount of liberation up front. The quickest, surest way to make money and move up is to get "a man's job." If you're snickering -- don't. Laughing at sexism signifies tacit acceptance of the kind of thinking that still prevails in banks, insurance companies, advertising, Wall Street and just about everywhere despite the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act. There is sound advice on how best to parlay your resources, and discussions on the various discriminatory tricks and traps used to keep women down or out: setting "qualifications" higher for her than for him, bestowing fancy titles but small paychecks, bypassing women for promotions -- and ways to get around such ploys. The format is efficiently question-and-answer but there's nothing slapdash about the canny tactics and suggestions.

CAROLINE BIRD REVEALS ALL THE UGLY PENALTIES FOR BEING BORN FEMALE AND EXPLORES THE ONGOING FEMALE OPPRESSION.

Hapless Herbert Hoover chose the term "depression" because he felt it did not have the fright potential of such established terms for financial disaster as "panic" or "crisis." This, and 1001 other facts have been rescued from the near oblivion that blankets the '30's in popular histories (or in tribal memory), and the buried gold of essential facts are burnished with personal anecdote and vivid passages from the contemporary record -- speeches and newspaper features. The title is the thesis, and this book contends that this willfully forgotten period has affected national attitudes and individual behavior with changes in politics, social welfare, employment, selling, marriage, women, and styles of dress, decor and decorum--along with failures to change. If your invisible scar twinges on hearing the refrain from "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" you should take the time for this -- it tells you why.

"Agamemnon faces an impossible choice, he is a father commanded by the gods to sacrifice his daughter. In doing so, he will lose his wife, Clytemnestra and bury his child, Iphigenia. Ever present over his shoulder, the Chorus awaits Iphigenia's fate. The Iphigenia Quartet explores this domestic catastrophe from the perspective of each key player. Clytemnestra grapples with the ultimate betrayal, Iphigenia boldly accepts her fate, Agamemnon wrestles with an impossible choice, and the Chorus powerlessly observe, unable to look away."--Page 4 of cover.

Includes material on Mary Goddard, Eliza Pinckney, Abigail Adams, Sarah Astor, Rebecca Lukens, Sarah Hale, Catharine Beecher, Ellen Demorest, Margaret LaForge, Margaret Haughery, Susan King, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Annie Wittenmyer, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Frances Leigh, Myra Bradwell, Lucy Taylor, Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Baker Eddy, Lydia Pinkham, Harriet Hubbard Ayer, C.J. Walker, Henrietta King, Eliza Nicholson, Mary Seymour, Katharine Gibbs, Miriam Leslie, the Everleighs, Ellen Richards, Fannie Farmer, Alice Lakey, Maggie Walker, Kate Gleason, Mary Follett, Josephine Roche, Mary Richmond, Ida Rosenthal, Nell Donnelly, Olive Ann Beech, Tillie Lewis, Beatrice Gould, Sylvia Porter, Mary Wells Lawrence, Katharine Graham, Jayne Baker Spain, Eleanor Holmes Norton.

Change will prove beneficial only if tomorrow's leadership canameliorate the tensions / Abraham Zaleznik The emergence of expressivism will revolutionize the contract between workers and employers / Daniel Yankelovich and John Immerwahr Creativity will dominate our time after the concepts of work and fun have been blurred by technology / Isaac Asimov Educators must advocate holism to prepare our human resources for the coming decentralization / George C. Lodge Corporate pyramids will tumble when horizontal organizations become the new global standard / Gunther Klaus Employers will follow workers south and west, away from cities and toward training programs / Pat Choate Minority workers of tomorrow must tread a much different path than did today's middle class / Eleanor Holmes Norton Basic industries won't die away; technology will strengthen them, despite socio-political problems / David M. Roderick Lobbyists for special interests are employing the bureaucracy to twist tomorrow's job market / Orrin G. Hatch Workers will have legal rights to jobs through state courts; affirmative action will expand / Herbert E. Gerson and Louis P. Britt III Training and retraining workers will be an important challenge for unions in the 21st century / Glenn Watts Tracking new career categories will become a preoccupation for job seekers and managers / S. Norman Feingold Part-time work will increase, bringing change to social mores and standards of compensation / Nancy S. Barrett International forces will prevail, but will unions be able to change with the new global work place? / Reginald Dale Retirement will become obsolete in the improved work scheme of our 21st century economy / Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird's fourth collection of poems extends the vigorous world she created as a teenager with 'Looking Through the Letterboxes' in 2002. 'The Hat-Stand Union' is a book about isolated people; some are isolated within a couple, some in a crowd, some have chosen to retreat and others are desperately trying to join forces with something, anything - even a hat-stand.

63 pages ; 22 cm

Based on an analysis of what America is like today, Caroline Bird--author, economist, and social forecaster--thoughtfully charts the future state of the economy and predicts a new kind of prosperity, one based on the most desirable of human values--pleasure, freedom, and self-fulfillment. She traces the rise and fall of America's love affair with youth and introduces us to the "ageless pioneers," those older persons who refuse to feel old and who live the way we will all be able to live in the twenty-first century. This book ponders the benefits we will enjoy from future technology and creates a scenario how life might look in 2010, with "wild card" things that might just happen, like stockbrokers doing business by satellite from South Pacific islands, or as radical as solving the problem of illegal aliens by eliminating the Mexican border.

"The Air Year is a time of flight, transition and suspension: signatures scribbled on the sky. Bird's speakers exist in a state of unrest, trapped in a liminal place between take-off and landing, undeniably lost. Love is uncontrollable, joy comes and goes at hurricane speed. They walk to the cliff edge, close their eyes and step out into the air"--Provided by publisher

"An angry orphan escapes a grey town on the back of a hurricane. She lands in a mysterious country of tiny people and wicked witches, where the trees carry bazookas, the crows recite slam poetry, and a mouse can blow your head off. In just one day, this little girl revolutionizes an entire nation. She brings freedom, and colour. Her name is Dorothy." -- Page 4 of cover.