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

Contents\n1 Introduction\nPrologue: Towards Normalisation of Night Work?\n2 “. . . Working Night and Day” Working at Night as a Metaphor in Paul’s First Epistle to the Thessalonians\nAgrarian Societies/Early Industrialism\n3 The Nights of Bombay Workers (1870–1920)\n4 Nightwork in Lisbon (1890–1915)\nLiberal Market Economies\n5 Night Work Restrictions in Interwar Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)\n6 Disrupted Times: Continuous Shift Workers in Societal and Sociological Debates Between Boom and Crisis (1945–1975)\n7 “Enter the World of Danger, Drama and Death!”: The Perception of the Night Nurse in Popular Fiction (1970s–1990s)\nAuthoritarianism\n8 “Threatening Our Home Life”: Shop Hours and White Women Retail Workers’ Struggles Around Evening Hours in Johannesburg South Africa (1908–1960s)\n9 The Socialist Image of the Night Shift and Its Practices (1945–1966)\nGlobal Capitalism of the Twenty-First Century\n10 Not Only Night Work: Time Difference, National Power-Geometry and Night Communications in Contemporary Far-Eastern Russia\n11 Delivering the Night-Time Economy Home: Nocturnal Labour and Temporalities of Platform Work\nEpilogue: Sleeping at Night?\n12 Expanding the Limits. Towards a History of Working and Waking in Modern Societies\nList of Contributors