Bombay Nights

Following the French philosopher Jacques Rancière’s Proletarian Nights: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (1981), I wanted to know what the 19th-century labouring poor, especially the cotton textile mill workers of Bombay who worked for 13 or 14 hours a day, did at night. Workers were very much confused about these mixed work practices within one single city, and the first demand to discipline the time of factories came from them. It was dark when they left for work, dark when they got home: they forgot what their children looked like
In front of the commissions appointed to regulate factory working conditions, workers demanded that the night be kept away from the working day.

Source: aeon.co