" Nightwork represents well a leading trend of fieldwork in contemporary anthropology, in which venerable places or topics of study are re-illuminated from unusual angles. Allison manages to address with new power the elite Japanese work ethic, so much feared in the West, through the seamy, but finally sympathetic predicament of the 'sarariiman.' And along the way, she makes an important contribution to applied feminist critique cross-culturally. "
- George Marcus, Rice University -