Up All Night
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780870710285
Subjects: United States; Social aspects; Sociology; Sociology - General; Night work; Night; Night people
Description: "In Up All Night a baker, a nude dancer, a flower market wholesaler, a longshoreman, a newspaper distributor, a shelter worker, a zookeeper, and sixteen other night workers candidly share personal histories. Their stories about night work - and about their lives during the daylight hours - are often funny, often poignant. Some work at night by choice - to earn higher wages or to avoid bosses. For others, such as recent immigrants or parents with day-working spouses, their only option may be the midnight shift." "Author and night owl Martha Gies guides readers on a nocturnal tour of unique workplaces - the waiting ambulances that encircle the darkened city, the maze of conveyor belts at the industrial bakery, the internet service provider's help desk. She visits and vividly describes the cold, gritty, and isolated settings of night work - the truck cab, the silhouetted cubicle, the empty street."--BOOK JACKET.