Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
English | October 9th, 2013 | ISBN: 0812245539 | 241 Pages | EPUB | 0.65 MB
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.