Dangerously Sleepy : : Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness / / Alan Derickson.
Workers in the United States are losing sleep. In the global economy a growing number of employees hold jobs-often more than one at once-with unpredictable hours. Even before the rise of the twenty-four-hour workplace, the relationship between sleep and industry was problematic: sleep is frequently...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Sleep Is for Sissies: Elite Males as Paragons of Wakefulness
- 2. In a Drowsy State: The Underregulation of Overwork
- 3. The Long Turn: Steelworkers and Shift Rotation
- 4. Asleep and Awake at the Same Time: Pullman Porters on Call
- 5. Six Days on the Road: Long-Haul Truckers Fighting Drowsiness
- Conclusion: The Employers' Dreams
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments