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 Glass Cleaner Spray 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

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Infant Cries Rattle Adult Cognition.

The attention-grabbing quality of the infant cry is well recognized, but how the emotional valence of infant vocal signals affects adult cognition and cortical activity has heretofore been unknown.We examined the effects of two contrasting infant vocalizations (cries vs.laughs) on adult performance on a Stroop task using a cross-modal distraction p

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