A Synthesis of Contemporary CapitalismS Across Nightshift Cities

Project Overview

The NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT project investigates and theorises nightwork. Armies of people, usually migrants, carve out an existence by working at night. For these millions of people across nightshift cities, nightwork means little or other way to opt out. Nightwork practices lie below the radar. They are conducive to the invisibility and multi-layered precarity, informality and irregularity of nightworkers. Yet, nightwork and nightworkers are underrepresented in labour history, and urban and night studies. Today the theoretical importance and empirical urgency of this research becomes even greater, as the current era of Night Time Economy boosterism does not focus on nightwork, but on nightlife.

Funder

The NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT project (2025 – 2029) is funded by the Research Ireland Pathways Programme. 

Project Team 

• Dr. Julius-Cezar Macarie {or MacQuarie}, Principal Investigator of the NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT project, Department of Sociology & Criminology and UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures, University College Cork. Email: jcmacarie@ucc.ie 
• Destiny Nezam. NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT PhD Researcher, Department of Sociology & Criminology and UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures.
• Dr. Tracey Skillington NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT Mentor / Advisor Head of Department in Sociology & Criminology, UCC. Email: t.skillington@ucc.ie

Find out more about the research team, project collaborators and the advisory board by clicking on the following link:  NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT pdf