Working At Night : : The Temporal Organisation of Labour Across Political and Economic Regimes /

Working At Night : : The Temporal Organisation of Labour Across Political and Economic Regimes / / ed. by Lucie Dušková, Ger Duijzings.

The night represents almost universally a special, liminal or "out of the ordinary" temporal zone with its own meanings, possibilities and dangers, and political, cultural, religious and social implications. Only in the modern era was the night systematically "colonised" and noct...

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MitwirkendeR:
Ahlheim, Hannah,
Duijzings, Ger,
Dušková, Lucie,
Fina, Rosa Maria,
Karaseva, Asya,
Kenny, Bridget,
Kumar, Arun,
Lalvani, Simiran,
Momzikova, Maria,
Müller, Malte,
Paris, Antoine,
Peters, Anja Katharina,
Rákosník, Jakub,
HerausgeberIn:
Duijzings, Ger,
Dušková, Lucie,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 273 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • Prologue: Towards Normalisation of Night Work?
  • 2 “. . . Working Night and Day” Working at Night as a Metaphor in Paul’s First Epistle to the Thessalonians
  • Agrarian Societies/Early Industrialism
  • 3 The Nights of Bombay Workers (1870–1920)
  • 4 Nightwork in Lisbon (1890–1915)
  • Liberal Market Economies
  • 5 Night Work Restrictions in Interwar Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)
  • 6 Disrupted Times: Continuous Shift Workers in Societal and Sociological Debates Between Boom and Crisis (1945–1975)
  • 7 “Enter the World of Danger, Drama and Death!”: The Perception of the Night Nurse in Popular Fiction (1970s–1990s)
  • Authoritarianism
  • 8 “Threatening Our Home Life”: Shop Hours and White Women Retail Workers’ Struggles Around Evening Hours in Johannesburg South Africa (1908–1960s)
  • 9 The Socialist Image of the Night Shift and Its Practices (1945–1966)
  • Global Capitalism of the Twenty-First Century
  • 10 Not Only Night Work: Time Difference, National Power-Geometry and Night Communications in Contemporary Far-Eastern Russia
  • 11 Delivering the Night-Time Economy Home: Nocturnal Labour and Temporalities of Platform Work
  • Epilogue: Sleeping at Night?
  • 12 Expanding the Limits. Towards a History of Working and Waking in Modern Societies
  • List of Contributors

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