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Detail from Labor, Charles Sprague Pearce (1896).
Detail from Labor, Charles Sprague Pearce (1896). Charles Sprague Pearce ( October 13, 1851 - May 18, 1914) American artist was born at Boston Massachusetts.

Labour or labor may refer to:

See also

Wage labour is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour under a Contract ( Employment Manual labour (or manual labor) is physical work done with the hands especially in an unskilled job such as fruit and vegetable picking road building or any Childbirth (also called labour, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a Human Pregnancy or Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning of the Market and dynamics for labour. Josef Labor ( June 29 1842 - April 26 1924) was a Pianist, Organist, and Composer of late Romantic music Vara A vara (abbreviation var) is an old Spanish and Portuguese unit of Length. The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming The field of industrial relations (also called labor relations) looks at the relationship between Management and workers particularly groups of workers represented Workforce (Voyager episode The workforce is the labour pool in Employment. Child labor is the employment of Children at regular and sustained labour Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for those work relations especially in modern or early modern history in which people are employed against their will Debt bondage or bonded labor is a means of paying off loans with direct labor instead of currency or goods

Dictionary

labour

-noun

  1. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
  2. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
  3. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
  4. The act of a mother giving birth
  5. The time period during which a mother gives birth.

-verb

  1. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
  2. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasize or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).

Labour

-proper noun

  1. Short for the Labour Party.
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