Life and labour across nocturnal London

Sukhdev Sandhu

City, 2006, vol. 10, issue 2, 205-214

Abstract: Now that London, along with many urban centres, boasts of being a sleepless, 24/7 metropolis, what role does night‐time play for its inhabitants and workers? In this article, Sukhdev Sandhu revives the once‐popular but more recently dormant tradition of urban noctambulation. After giving an account of late‐19th and early‐20th‐century representations of midnight in the city, he writes, in a style at once poetic and anthropological, about the cleaners and avian police who labour after dark.

Date: 2006
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