FROM THE 8-HOUR DAY TO THE 40-HOUR WEEK: LEGITIMIZATION DISCOURSES OF LABOUR LEGISLATION BETWEEN THE WARS IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM

From the 8-Hour Day to the 40-Hour Week: Legitimization Discourses of Labour Legislation between the Wars in France and Belgium

In the interwar period both France and Belgium passed legislation reducing the number of working hours and established a hybrid regulatory regime lending a certain degree of official authority to collective agreements.The paper analyses discourses by scholars who, as experts, were close to the political elites, and who tried to legitimize this roue

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Precision Low-Cost Compact Micro-Displacement Sensors Based on a New Arrangement of Cascaded Levers with Flexural Joints

Existing displacement sensors of micrometers to sub-micron precision are expensive and have various limitations.This paper reports the design and development of a new contact type compact micro-displacement sensor of sub-micron precision for a sastra bandham vel online shopping fraction of the cost of commercial devices.The basic concept of the new

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