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UNINA9910464331103321 |
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Derickson Alan |
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Dangerously sleepy : overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness / / Alan Derickson |
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Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Hours of labor |
Shift systems |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Sleep Is for Sissies: Elite Males as Paragons of Wakefulness -- 2. In a Drowsy State: The Underregulation of Overwork -- 3. The Long Turn: Steelworkers and Shift Rotation -- 4. Asleep and Awake at the Same Time: Pullman Porters on Call -- 5. Six Days on the Road: Long-Haul Truckers Fighting Drowsiness -- Conclusion: The Employers’ Dreams -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910453875403321 |
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Autore |
Jones Deryn Rees |
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Writing Liverpool [[electronic resource] ] : Essays and Interviews |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2007 |
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1-78138-685-4 |
1-84631-447-X |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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English literature |
English Literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
Electronic books. |
Liverpool (England) In literature |
Liverpool (England) Intellectual life 20th century |
Liverpool (England) Intellectual life 21st century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: Sounding Liverpool; 1: George Garrett, Merseyside Labour and the Influence of the United States; 2: 'No Struggle but the Home': James Hanley's The Furys; 3: Paradise Street Blues: Malcolm Lowry's Liverpool; 4: 'Unhomely Moments': The Fictions of Beryl Bainbridge; 5: A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell; 6: The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies; 7: 'Every Time a Thing Is Possessed, It Vanishes': The Poetry of Brian Patten |
8: Finding a Rhyme for Alphabet Soup: An Interview with Roger McGough9: Rewriting the Narrative: Liverpool Women Writers; 10: Jumping Off: An Interview with Linda Grant; 11: Ramsey Campbell's Haunted Liverpool; 12: 'We Are a City That Just Likes to Talk': An Interview with Alan Bleasdale; 13: 'Culture Is Ordinary': The Legacy of the Scottie Road and Liverpool 8 Writers; 14: 'I've Got a Theory about Scousers': Jimmy McGovern and Lynda La Plante; 15: Manners, Mores and Musicality: An Interview with Willy Russell |
16: Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting17: Putting Down Roots: An Interview with Levi Tafari; 18: 'Out of Transformations': Liverpool Poetry in the Twenty-first Century |
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Roger McGough, Levi Tafari, Willy Russell, Terence Davies, James Hanley, George Garrett, J.G. Farrell, Brian Patten, Adrian Henri, Beryl Bainbridge, Jimmy McGovern, Alan Bleasdale, Helen Forrester, Lyn Andrews, Margaret Murphy, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell... no matter what the genre Liverpool seems to have generated some of the most provocative and interesting writers of the last seventy-five years. Intended to mark and celebrate Liverpool's 800th birthday in 2007 and its status as European City of Culture in 2008, this collection of essays and interviews addresses the wide range of writing |
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