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ISBN: 1536124656 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers,
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Shift systems --- Night work --- Social aspects. --- Health aspects.
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ISBN: 0812245539 1322512809 0812208773 Year: 2014 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
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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 cast as an enemy or a weakness, while constant productivity and flexibility are glorified at the expense of health and safety. Dangerously Sleepy is the first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present. Health and labor historian Alan Derickson charts the cultural and political forces behind the overvaluation—and masculinization—of wakefulness in the United States. Since the nineteenth century, men at all levels of society have toiled around the clock by necessity: steel workers coped with rotating shifts, Pullman porters grappled with ever-changing timetables and unrelenting on-call status, and long-haul truckers dealt with chaotic life on the road. But the dangerous realities of exhaustion were minimized and even glamorized when the entrepreneurial drive of public figures such as Thomas Edison and Donald Trump encouraged American men to deny biological need in the name of success. For workers, resisting sleep became a challenge of masculine strength. This lucid history of the wakeful work ethic suggests that for millions of American men and women, untenable work schedules have been the main factor leading to sleep loss, newer ailments such as shift work sleep disorder, and related morbidity and mortality. Dangerously Sleepy places these public health problems in historical context.
Hours of labor. --- Shift systems. --- Shift work --- Shiftwork --- Work shifts --- Hours of labor --- Industrial management --- Night work --- Alternative work schedules --- Children --- Labor, Hours of --- Work hours --- Work schedules --- Working-day --- Working hours --- Work --- Labor productivity --- Labor time --- Timekeeping --- Weekly rest-day --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Gender Studies. --- Women's Studies.
ISBN: 1556197446 9027232989 9786613174352 1283174359 9027283443 9789027283443 9781556197444 9789027232984 Year: 1999 Volume: 1 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.
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This book examines changing work relationships in industrialized economies within the context of economic restructuring and demographic variables. The goal of this book is to examine experiences of industrialized economies in dealing with changing work relationships and discuss policy implications of creating such work relationships. The thesis of the book is that non-standard employment forms in restructuring economies affected all workers, but particularly females and the youth. Other demographic variables of education level, race/ethnicity/immigrant status, ability, and economic class were
Flextime --- Part-time employment. --- Work environment. --- Employees --- Horaires variables de travail --- Emploi à temps partiel --- Conditions de travail --- Personnel, Effets des innovations sur le --- Effect of technological innovations on. --- Compressed workweek. --- Flextime. --- Shift systems. --- AA / International- internationaal --- 332.10 --- 332.691 --- Betrekkingen tussen werkgevers en werknemers. Organisatie van de arbeidsverhoudingen in de industrie: algemeenheden. --- Evolutie van de arbeidsmarkt. --- Emploi à temps partiel --- Climate, Workplace --- Environment, Work --- Places of work --- Work places --- Working conditions, Physical --- Working environment --- Workplace --- Workplace climate --- Workplace environment --- Worksite environment --- Alternative work schedules --- Employment, Part-time --- Part-time work --- Flexible hours of labor --- Flexible work hours --- Flexitime --- Hours of labor, Flexible --- Variable work hours --- Work hours, Flexible --- Work hours, Variable --- Technological innovations --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Flexible work arrangements --- Four-day week --- Part-time employment --- Work environment --- Effect of technological innovations on --- E-books --- Betrekkingen tussen werkgevers en werknemers. Organisatie van de arbeidsverhoudingen in de industrie: algemeenheden --- Evolutie van de arbeidsmarkt
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