7. A Hard Day’s Night Life On The Edge

London is fast becoming a 24-hour city, in this episode we talk to some of its growing number of night workers. What's it like to work while most of us are asleep? Why do workers choose to be nocturnal? Is it a choice at all?



Main presenter: Rebecca Scroggs

Editing and production: Helen Clapp

Music and sound design: Michael Edwards



Organisations and research mentioned in the episode and useful links:

Mayor unveils first ever 24-hour vision for London

https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/mayors-24-hour-vision-for-london

National Sleep Foundation: Shift Work Disorder

https://sleepfoundation.org/shift-work/content/shift-work-disorder-–-symptoms

Rough Nights: The Growing Dangers of Working at Night - The Young Foundation

https://youngfoundation.org/publications/rough-nights-the-growing-dangers-of-working-at-night/

A Hard Days Night- TUC 2015

https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/AHardDaysNight.pdf

260,000 more people working at night in past five years, finds TUC

https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/260000-more-people-working-night-past-five-years-finds-tuc

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison'

http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-like-prison-where-workers-used-pee-bottle-2018-4

Race report statistics | Equality and Human Rights Commission

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/latest-projects/race-report-statistics

Night shift: the dangers of working around the clock

https://www.ft.com/content/f99b316c-5e16-11e8-ad91-e01af256df68



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