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Human Resources

By Erin Murphy

Human Resources Social Sciences

Human Resources

By Erin Murphy

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"Do not bother to smile/ for your photo ID / in Human Resources. / In Human Resources / no one has a face," Erin Murphy writes. Yet in this book of documentary poems exploring labor and employment issues, Murphy gives a face and a voice to those who have been marginalized by impersonal-even brutal-working conditions. With subjects ranging from migrant farmers in the Southwest United States to cell phone manufacturers in Shenzhen, China, these persona, erasure, and memoir poems illuminate the human beings behind profits and policies. In "Rana Plaza," a survivor of the Bangladesh factory collapse survives "on rainwater and biscuits / scavenged from the rucksacks of the dead. / Even now she carries / their dust in her mouth." Likewise, readers will carry these speakers' stories long after finishing this compelling and necessary collection.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
108
Release Date:
2025-06-02
Publication Date:
2025-06-02
Publisher:
Grayson Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798990747487
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
170 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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