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Sleep and the Industrial Revolution
Doctor rees says the people who ran asylums like the one jane was sent to were obsessed with their patient's sleep. But it wasn't just these asylum physicians who became fixated with sleep. Through the industrial revolution, industrialists and tory owners wanted to figure out how to control the sleep of workers. In 18 90, by some estimates, the average work week for manufacturing workers was 100 hours.