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Work patterns suddenly changed as night-shifts became an essential component of capitalist modernity and this has had dramatic effects on our biological clocks and the clocks of animals and insects around us.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2015

Calculation of the rising-times for future night-shifts came into my mind.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford

Here again, as in all reports on women in industry, we find the prevalence of pregnant women working on night-shifts, often to the very day of their delivery.

From The Pivot of Civilization by Sanger, Margaret

They were immediately taken into the different crews and night-shifts of paddlers put to work.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

On those first night-shifts I wondered if my feelings on the arrangement of hours were not solely those of a sensitive novice.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford