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2016 | 6 | 3 | 129-136

Article title

Sleep, Work and Globalization: The Evening/Night Shift Employees in Call Centre in Romania

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Abstracts

EN
In order to ensure synchronized operation of companies who use workforce around the world, work schedules have been divided in two or three shifts and a large number of people work in evening or night shifts. Based on interviews with 25 employees of a call centre in Romania, I describe three processes: sleep desynchronization, i.e. working during night and sleeping during the day, synchronization with those having similar nocturnal schedules and, finally, its resynchronization with the mainstream. I describe the tensions and conflicts which accompany each such transformation.

Publisher

Year

Volume

6

Issue

3

Pages

129-136

Physical description

Dates

published
2016-05-01
received
2015-02-01
accepted
2015-12-01
online
2016-08-06

Contributors

  • Department of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Str. Schitu Măgureanu nr. 9, Sector 1, Romania

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Publication order reference

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YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.doi-10_1515_irsr-2016-0016
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