 | Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness Subjects: 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 -- Unit; 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. Alan Derickson is Professor of Labor Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University and author of Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America, Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster, and Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners' Struggle, 1891-1925. |
