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In early modern times, many ''harsitem'' migrated from the hamlets to the proto-industrialising cities, where they hoped to seek better economic opportunities and overcome the prejudices of the countryside, but still found most doors closed to them and largely ended up in the urban equivalents of their previous professions in sanitation, butchery, and the like. Continued hardship led many into criminal lifestyles, forming all-harsitem criminal gangs, calling themselves simply “night workers”. These gangs consolidated into proper crime families, and formed symbiotic relationships with “gravedigger” crews made up of criminals from ''[[yakav]]'' backgrounds. Although the prominence of the Nightworkers and Gravediggers has declined in many cities due to competition from the more ethnic crime families, ''harsitem'' remain overrepresented in the criminal underworld to this day.