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Author Derickson, Alan

Title Dangerously sleepy : overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness / Alan Derickson
Edition First edition
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series EBL-Schweitzer
Contents Sleep Is for Sissies : Elite Males as Paragons of Wakefulness -- In a Drowsy State : The Underregulation of Overwork -- The Long Turn : Steelworkers and Shift Rotation -- Asleep and Awake at the Same Time : Pullman Porters on Call -- Six Days on the Road : Long-Haul Truckers Fighting Drowsiness -- Conclusion : The Employers' Dreams
Summary This book explores the fraught relations between overwork, sleep deprivation, and public health. The author, a health and labor historian, charts the cultural and political forces behind the overvaluation - and masculinization - of wakefulness in the United States
Analysis American History
American Studies
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Hours of labor -- United States -- History
Shift systems -- United States -- History
Men -- Employment -- United States
Men -- United States -- Attitudes
Sleep deprivation -- Health aspects -- United States
Sleep deprivation -- Social aspects -- United States
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Hours of labor
Men -- Attitudes
Men -- Employment
Shift systems
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812208773
9780812208771