Reportage

The Quiet Hours

Night work and the people who do it

by Priya Raghunathan

A year spent with the people who keep cities running between midnight and six.

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Cleaners, dispatchers, bakers, nurses, the people who read scans while a hospital sleeps. A year of reporting on night work, on what it does to a body over a decade, and on an economy that depends on it while pretending not to.

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