Working at night : the temporal organisation of labour across political and economic regimes / edited by Ger Duijzings and Lucie Dušková.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duijzings, Gerlachlus, 1961- editor.

Dušková, Lucie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Night work.

Physical Description:

vi, 273 pages : color illustrations, color map; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

Draws attention to the extended work hours and night shift work, which have remained underexplored in the history of labour and the social science literature. By describing and comparing various political and economic "regimes," it argues that, from the viewpoint of global labour history, night labour and the spread of 24/7 production and services should not be seen, only and exclusively, as an epiphenomenon of capitalist production, but rather as one of the outcomes of industrial modernity.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Lucie Duskova

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 / Antoine Paris

Agrarian Societies/Early industrialism

3. The Nights of Bombay Workers (1870

1920) / Arun Kumar

4. Nightwork in Lisbon (1890

1915) / Rosa Maria Fina

Liberal Market Economies

5. Night Work Restrictions in Interwar Czechoslovakia (1918

1938) / Jakub Rakosnfk

6. Disrupted Times: Continuous Shift Workers in Societal and Sociological Debates Between Boom and Crisis (1945

1975) / Malte Miiller

7. "Enter the World of Danger, Drama and Death!": The Perception of the Night Nurse in Popular Fiction (1970s

1990s) / Anja Katharina Peters

Authoritarianism

8. "Threatening Our Home Life": Shop Hours and White Women Retail Workers' Struggles Around Evening Hours in Johannesburg South Africa (1908

1960s) / Bridget Kenny

9. The Socialist Image of the Night Shift and Its Practices (1945

1966) / Lucie Duskova

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 / Maria Momzikova

11. Delivering the Night-Time Economy Home: Nocturnal Labour and Temporalities of Platform Work / Simiran Lalvani

Epilogue: Sleeping at Night?

12. Expanding the Limits. Towards a History of Working and Waking in Modern Societies / Hannah Ahlheim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110752885

3110752883

OCLC:

1346316601