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    Exhibition People: Poetry from a Museum
    Exhibition People: Poetry from a Museum
    Exhibition People: Poetry from a Museum
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    Exhibition People: Poetry from a Museum

    By Samuel Ali

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    Exhibition People, is a collection of poems about life working in a museum. Whether it's checking tickets or serving in the gift shop, the poems consider life from behind the smile. In these times of funding cuts, zero hour and other precarious contracts, working conditions are deteriorating. It is important the experiences of men and women that work in museums in customer service, cleaning and security are heard. So please support Exhibition People!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSamuel Ali
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    Exhibition People: Poetry from a Museum

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      Exhibition People - Samuel Ali

      May 2017

      © Samuel Ali

      @salityping

      samuelaliblog.wordpress.com

      In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become…

      Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

      1  Irony

      2  Retail Assistant

      3  Refund

      4  Feedback reply

      5  Rigged

      6  Numbers

      7  Counselling

      8  Newspaper Stand

      9  Tory Boy

      10  5 x Tommy Gun T-Shirt XL

      11  2 x Boxes Guidebooks

      12  Mau

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