1. Backshift definition is - the second shift of workers for the day in a mine.

2. The second shift occurs when both the centre of orientation and the related objects are excluded from the canonical situation.

3. ‘Probably the most famous Articulator of the leisure gap is Arlie Hoschchild, who reported in ‘The Second Shift’ that the leisure gap between men and women in two-wage households worked out to an entire extra month of 24-hour days.’.