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> The model of an eight-hour, unbroken sleep is a modern and western one, coinciding with the advent of electric lighting and the new routines of the workday, a
by lurk2 1y ago
> The model of an eight-hour, unbroken sleep is a modern and western one, coinciding with the advent of electric lighting and the new routines of the workday, and achieved through class struggle in the emerging industrial workplace.
The scholarship on this isn’t good.
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- EA-3167 1y agoThat tracks, it was a scandal-dogged publication that finally closed the year after this article was published, following the resignation of the editorial board.