... Globalization communication night work identity functional integration ...

... night work eight-hour day circadian clock economic well-being physical well-being social well-being ...

... This chapter starts with a puzzle: Why is there a total absence, in thought and in practice, of any collective struggle against the graveyard shift worldwide? It explores the contemporary globalization of night work and the gradual lifting of legal barriers against the nocturnal shift...

... of call centers and their global context and connection. Globalization communication night work identity functional integration ...

... Rosemarie tells her own ghost/spirit story in this chapter, about a couple that walked her home from work one night when she was being followed by a man, but disappeared the moment her father came to meet her. angels Pachamamas ...

... This chapter argues that the home is where IT workers’ experiences on the street and in the office are assessed. It uses the variety of activities they engage in at home—eating together, gossip sessions, wide-ranging discussions that go deep into the night—to revisit scholarly understandings...

... Soul! is an unremembered landmark in the history of American television. It was the only nationally televised program to explore artistic and intellectual expressions of the Black Arts and Black Power movements. Appropriating the variety-show format familiar from late-night TV, it explored...

... Chapter Seven: The Whiteness of the Wail. The white wail was a legacy, dating back to the pot-banging, tub-thumping parades that whites becoming a working class used as they “made the night hideous” registering disapproval. Voices are socially regulated, often in racially defined ways, afforded...

... at the vanguard of national development. The chapter tracks how the Indian middle classes became scientists in service to the nation in the Nehruvian period and then how they draw on that legacy in the current moment to advance their privatized scientific projects. Viewed within this framing, short-term work...

... The conversation begins with a discussion of a 1971 painting by Kingsley Tjungurrayi, Stars, Rain, and Lightning at Night , the earliest in the collection. The subject matter is identified as an ancestral story of rain and lightning, marked by the jagged central figure as an icon of lightning...

... This chapter describes how thousands of working-class youths come to the Pelourinho on Sunday nights to sing in unison as they “translate” classic Jamaican reggae songs into Portuguese entirely on the basis of the songs’ prosody. It examines how the discussions of commodities and consumption...

... ambitions, opinions about women in bohemia—much to exchange, question, despite the difference in their ages. That night they decide to begin writing to each other. Hettie discusses in the narrative the purpose of using their letters as a way to continue not only her own journey after How I Became Hettie...

... within the ghost. The human body as meat, the rag-human under torture, still refuses to die a death not of its choosing. The othered subject at work finds in the shadows of night a community of the dead and a means of escape through doubling, reflection, imagination, and bodily detachment...

... With 400,000 call center agents, the Philippines has outpaced India in growth and number for voice operations. The offshore agent as a liminal figure simulates being in synch as a sonic presence with corporate global time at night while living bodily in Philippine national time. The offshore...

... The introduction opens with the night of the arson attack and centers our core theory on the ground for analyzing this attack and connecting it to attacks on Black feminist worlds past, present, future: what we call “the racial capitalism playbook.” In the wake of the fire, research became...

..., a daughter of Vietnamese refugees, and as ARMY, “Let Us Light Up the Night”: BTS and Abolitionist Possibilities at the End of the World,” explores how encounters with BTS’s body of work can illuminate and inform abolitionist principles and practices for a “moment yet to come.” abolition refugee Black...

... at the Mudd Club. Haring then invited Brathwaite and Futura 2000 to curate a Beyond Words graffiti show at the Mudd Club; Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa played at the opening-night party. Meanwhile Basquiat quit Gray, played the lead role in the downtown film Downtown 81 , and then, following introductions made...

...1980<subtitle>The Recalibration of Disco</subtitle> Initially working in collaboration with Diego Cortez and Anya Phillips, Steve Mass opened the Mudd Club on White Street in the autumn of 1978. He sought to create a hangout for the downtown art crowd, punks, and miscellaneous others while...

... of work schedules to ideology and to instructions about how to get an enemy to confess, including the best ways to mix “politics” and torture. The chapter extensively discusses the documentation of (and Duch’s testimony about) the confession of Ya, a high-ranking cadre whose interrogation and torture Duch...

... how to handle and use those abilities for good. Ella Lee Harris Freeney (Mama Freeney) ghost stories Leesburg Georgia Eddy Van der Hilst Surinamese Wintis Orixas Rosemarie tells her own ghost/spirit story in this chapter, about a couple that walked her home from work one night when...