Dangerously Sleepy explores the fraught relations between overwork, sleep deprivation, and public health. Health and labor historian Alan Derickson charts the cultural and political forces behind the overvaluation-and masculinization-of wakefulness in the United States.
"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…
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.