CFP: "NIGHT WORK" INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY JOURNAL

“Night Work Across Time & Place” Special Issue of

International Labor and Working-Class History Journal

The International Labor and Working-Class History Journal (ILWCH) invites contributions for a special thematic issue that will examine histories of night work, broadly speaking. Shiftwork and overnight “graveyard shifts” have proliferated since the 19th century, particularly with the rise of industrial manufacturing and the service industry. This special issue will historicize such night work and explore both its antecedents and aftermaths. In particular, we encourage submissions that examine the gendered, racial, or class contexts of night work as well as its social, psychological, and physical effects. We welcome contributions from any geographical or chronological field.

• Possible themes to consider:Home or piecemeal work (and its gendered history);

• Janitorial or other forms of ‘unseen’ work done at night and/or in the dark;

• Activism and labor organizing around shift or night work;

• Health and medical work, including nighttime child care and nursing;

• The legal history of work hours, night shifts, and their regulation;

• Health implications of night shiftwork on the body;

• The night-time, or nightlife, economy and its evolution;

• Nocturnal mobility and geographies.

The co-editors are actively looking to represent a wide range of historical periods and places, and thus encourage manuscripts focusing on worker communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Canada, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. Along with conventional 6,000-8,000-word manuscript submissions (including footnotes), this issue will also consider shorter photoessays, transcribed interviews with workers and/or employers, and notes from the field.

Prospective authors should send an abstract of 500-1,000 words, along with their email and institutional or work affiliation, to the co-editors by October 15, 2023. If invited to submit a piece, the deadline for a completed manuscript for peer review will be December 1, 2023.

All queries and submissions should indicate that they are for the “Night Work” special issue and sent to:

Allyson Brantley, University of La Verne (abrantley@laverne.edu)

Lori A. Flores, Stony Brook University (lori.flores@stonybrook.edu)

Contact Information

Allyson Brantley, abrantley@laverne.edu

Lori A. Flores, lori.flores@stonybrook.edu