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Chapter 1. Introduction: Invisible Migrants -- Chapter 2. Nightnography: We Are Not Night Creatures -- Chapter 3. Half-rejected, Half-permitted Migrant Workers -- Chapter 4. Intersecting Hierarchies of Nightwork -- Chapter 5. The Normalisation of Nightwork -- Chapter 6. Habitus of Nightwork -- Chapter 7. Embodied Precariousness -- Chapter 8. Fragmented Cooperation -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: The Significance of Nightwork -- Chapter 10. Coda–Essential Yet Invisible, Pandemic or Not.

This essay explores the burdens of nightwork through the eyes of call center employees in India. India's call centers are revealing of the ways in which work lives are reorganized to fit global processes. When the nights of agents are hitched directly to the days of other places, we witness not only a triumph of the global economy; we also notice certain dysfunctions of a functionally integrated world.

"Court of Appeals, State of New York." ; Cover title. ; "Index of sources quoted": p. [433]-452. ; Introduction -- The world's experience upon which the legislation prohibiting the employment of women at night is based. The dangers of night work. Economic aspects of the prohibition of night work. Uniformity of regulation -- Legislation prohibiting the employment of women at night. The American legislation. The foreign legislation. War time exemptions in foreign legislation -- Decision of the New York Court of Appeals upholding the New York nightwork law for women. ; Mode of access: Internet.

<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> Shiftwork can be a risk factor for a number of different somatic and psychological health conditions, especially sleep disorders. Shiftworkers sleep less than dayworkers, and 20–40% of them suffer from difficulties initiating and maintaining sleep, which result in reduced capacity for work and social life. A common coping strategy might be the use of alcohol, which presents a health and safety hazard as it further impairs sleep quality and exacerbates sleepiness in the workplace. This review aimed to assess the extent of such possible connections. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> We performed a systematic search of the scientific literature on shiftwork and alcohol consumption in PubMed, PsycInfo, and Cochrane Library. Only original studies comparing shiftworkers with non-shiftworkers were included. The recommendations of the <i>Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses</i> were followed. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Fourteen articles are included in this review. Six studies report some kind of connection between shift- or nightwork and alcohol consumption, especially as a sleep aid. Conflicting or negative results are reported by 3 studies. <b><i>Discussion:</i></b> Shiftwork, especially working at night and in rotation shifts, is associated with binge drinking disorder in different professions. The reasons for pathological consumption of alcohol can be self-medication of sleep problems or coping with stress and psychosocial problems typical for shiftwork. Nurses aged over 50 years represent one important risk group. These results can be important for preventive programs against sleep disorders, including measures other than drinking alcohol as a sleep aid in the workplace of shiftworkers.

Die Arbeitszeitpolitik der vergangenen Jahre zielte vielfach auf eine Flexibilisierungder Arbeitszeiten. Ein Grund für diese Flexibilisierungspolitik ist in der Flexibilisierungder Produktmärkte zu sehen. Durch eine Ausweitung der Ladenöffnungszeiten und dem Übergang zum Ausgleich von Nachfrageschwankungen nicht über die Lagerhaltung, sondern über die Produktionsmenge (Bosch 2003) haben flexible Arbeitszeitformen in Deutschland an Bedeutung gewonnen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird im Folgenden beschrieben, wie sich die Verbreitung von Wochenend-, Abend- und Nachtarbeit seit 1995 in Deutschland entwickelt hat. Zudem wird auf die Nutzung unterschiedlicherRegelungen zum Ausgleich von Überstunden eingegangen. In einer Regressionsanalyse basierend auf Paneldaten wird die Frage untersucht, wie sich unterschiedliche Formen flexibler Arbeitszeiten auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit als Indikator der Qualität der Arbeit aus Sicht der Erwerbstätigen auswirken.

Objective: recognizing the scientific productions that approach night shift work carried out by the nursing
staff in hospitals. Method: this is a bibliographic, narrative, exploratory and descriptive research. The search
was developed in the Virtual Health Library, from July to August 2012. Results: studies point to the fact
that most workers are married women with spouses and/or children, who have to do housework and deal
with their profession, in one or two jobs. Despite of the negative repercussion of the night shift work upon
the health of the workers, they often do this shift because of their choice/personal need or professional and
not by imposition of the institution. Conclusion: there is a growing interest in this topic, mainly in terms of
repercussions of this work shift for the health of nursing professionals. It should be highlighted that it is
fundamental to reduce these repercussions, as well as to diminish the hospitalization rates in a way to
contribute for the promotion of health and satisfaction at work.

The group discussion is a qualitative method perfectly suited for analyzing attitudes and opinions at the supra-individual level and tracing the process of how they emerge. Psychoanalytic group theories expand our understanding of group processes by adding the dimension of the unconscious: groups, too, display defense reactions arid forms of repression. By adding this dimension, the authors can show how social groups proceed to collectively relegate important issues to the realm of the unconscious. In this way, social defense processes are reproduced in actu. In group discussions involving female union members, the predicament of working mothers comes to the fore particularly clearly. An excerpt from a group discussion illustrates that the women seem to perceive night work as the only realistic solution to the problem of reconciling work and family. Only when we turn to a psychoanalytic hermeneutics of scenic understanding are we able to reveal a repressed conception of life looming behind the paradoxical demand: the desire to overcome the separation of productive and reproductive labor in the lives of both sexes; a desire that can only be achieved if labor unions, too, perceive gender relations as a political challenge demanding their attention.

An increasing proportion of the European labor force works in the evening, at night or on weekends. Because nonstandard work schedules are associated with a number of negative outcomes for families and children, parents may seek to avoid such schedules. However, for parents with insufficient access to formal child care, working nonstandard hours or days may be an adaptive strategy used to manage child-care needs. It enables 'split-shift' parenting, where parents work alternate schedules, allowing one of the two to be at home looking after the children. This study examines the prevalence of nonstandard work schedules among parents and nonparents in 22 European countries. Specifically, we ask whether the provision of formal child care influences the extent to which parents of preschool-aged children work nonstandard schedules. Using data from the European Social Survey and multilevel models, we find evidence that the availability of formal child care reduces nonstandard work among parents. This indicates that access to formal child care enables parents to work standard schedules. To the extent that nonstandard work schedules are negatively associated with child well-being, access to formal child care protects children from the adverse effects of their parents' evening and night work.

"Das zentrale Ziel dieser 1987 begonnenen, vom nordrhein-westfälischen Arbeitsministerium finanziell geförderten Berichterstattung über die Entwicklung von Arbeits- und Betriebszeiten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland bestand darin, ein flächendeckendes (alle Kategorien von abhängig Beschäftigten, alle Wirtschaftszweige und alle Betriebsgrößenklassen einbeziehendes), kontinuierlich fortzuschreibendes und ständig zu aktualisierendes System von empirisch gesicherten Grundinformationen zum 'Arbeits- und Betriebszeitgeschehen' bereitzustellen." (Autorenreferat)

This study examined the associations of work schedules and spousal satisfaction among Finnish (n = 347), Dutch (n = 304) and British (n = 337) parents. In addition to comparing parents with nonstandard schedule with parents in regular day work, the study examined separately the roles played in spousal satisfaction of morning, evening, night and weekend work and other working time-related variables (working hours, changes in and influence over one's work schedules and spouse's work schedule). The three-country data were analyzed using structural equation modeling with a multigroup procedure in Mplus. Little evidence for negative associations of work schedules and related factors with spousal satisfaction was found among the present European employees. No between-country differences were found in the examined associations. The quantitative analyses were supplemented with content analysis of parents' descriptions of the experienced effects of their working times on their spousal relationship. Parents described their working times mostly as having a negative influence on their possibilities of being together, organization of daily life, psychological and physiological reactions and spousal communication. Some, however, also mentioned benefits and finding solutions to problems related to their working times.