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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

Duijzings, Ger
Dusková, Lucie

Hardcover

Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective, Book 15

General World History

ISBN10: 3110752883
ISBN13: 9783110752885
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Published: Oct 3 2022
Pages: 279
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 nocturnal activity normalised, in terms of (industrial) labour and production processes. Although the globalised 24/7 economy is usually seen as the outcome of capitalist modernisation, development and expansion starting in the late nineteenth century, other consecutive and more recent political and economic systems adopted perpetual production systems as well, extending work into the night and forcing workers to work the night shift, normalising it as part of an alternative non-capitalist modernity. This volume 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.　

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