ABSTRACT
Already we have glimpsed or touched upon issues to do with the social organisation and social patterning of sleep, particularly historically. In this chapter we take a closer look at these issues in terms of contemporary trends and developments. Both this and the subsequent chapter may be seen as different takes or stances on the fate or fortunes of sleep in a changing social world, and the claim-making surrounding it, with particular reference to inequalities, institutions and injustices in this chapter, and the colonisation/commercialisation of sleep in the next chapter. Herein lies the rationale then for the remaining part of this book, which bring us right up to date, so to speak, in a long-running saga of sleep and society.
