Relatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in India to the call center industry. At the same time, night shift employment presents women, in particular, with new challenges alongside the opportunities. This book explores how beliefs about what constitutes "women's work" are evolving in response to globalization. Working the Night Shift is the first in-depth study of the transnational call center industry that is written from the point of view of women workers. It uncovers how call center employment affects their lives, mainly as it relates to the anxiety that Indian families and Indian society have towards women going out at night, earning a good salary, and being exposed to western culture. This timely account illustrates the ironic and, at times, unsettling experiences of women who enter the spaces and places made accessible through call center work. Visit the author's website at http://www.working-the-nightshift.com and Facebook group at www.facebook.com/WorkingtheNightShift.

Night shift is a difficult time to work. Do you work at night and feel tired all the time? Would you like to feel energetic at work, and think more clearly? Would you like to get better sleep? Would you like to avoid the groggy feelings that many night shift workers face? Would you like to have a normal appetite again? And be happier and less irritable? Dr. Steve Frei has been a night-shift-working emergency physician for over 30 years. Here is his practical guide to help you adapt to night shift in a scientifically based way. It answers your most difficult night shift questions: When should I sleep? How do I get to sleep easier? When can I exercise? Should I take sleeping pills? What can I do to stay awake and alert at work? Should I drink a lot of coffee? What about naps? Get the benefits of the newest research on circadian rhythms and shift work, sound sleep, light treatments, melatonin, napping, diet, caffeine, exercise, medications, and much more.

This booklet provides straightforward advice on how best to prepare before working the night shift, how to stay alert and refreshed while on duty and how to recover from working nights.

A beautifully illustrated picture book exploration of the jobs that keep a city running all through the night, and make it ready for the new day.

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.

In January, Curt Mellam, widower, prices an imported sports car (MGX) as a high school graduation present for Karen, his only child, expecting her to drive it to Georgetown University in the coming fall. He never completes the purchase. Instead, by September he is dodging bullets as a moonlighter, is rapidly unlearning notions he, as a straight-arrow, to-the-line executive, has long held, and is worrying about how he will ever pay next semester's tuition for Karen. "Night Work" tells how Curt adapts to street life and, at the same time, to his quickly maturing (especially sexually) daughter who brings her first serious boy friend home to meet Dad just as Curt has to start working nights. Curt, of course, wants to tar and feather the boy and run him out of town. The story is told with self-effacing humor despite the violence (murder, corrupt inner city police, drug dealing) Curt encounters. In time, Curt and his daughter come to consider their ordeals blessings.