The Dead by Michael Swanwick

"The Dead" is a 1996 science fiction short story by Michael Swanwick. It is about a company that re-animates dead people - using zombies as a cheap form of labor. Non-Spoiler Summary In A Nutshell: "The Dead" follows Donald, a man who is being courted by a new company with a simple premise: bring the dead back to life and they can be used as a type of cheap, non-complaining, never-get-sick-or-hurt…