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From the 8-Hour Day to the 40-Hour Week: Legitimization Discourses of Labour Legislation between the Wars in France and Belgium
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Abstract 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 poli... view more
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 kind of co-regulation by pointing out the inefficiency of state intervention and the epistemic authority of non-state actors. Stressing the output dimension of legitimacy and the improved quality of legal norms, these discourses had a technocratic tendency and ultimately argued in favour of a shift of power from the legislative to the administrative branch of government.... view less
Keywords
Belgium; France; labor law; working hours; statuary regulation; reduction in working hours; collective agreement; peace time
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Law
Free Keywords
labour legislation; public-private regulation
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 6-14
Journal
Politics and Governance, 5 (2017) 1
Issue topic
Legitimization of Private and Public Regulation: Past and Present
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed