Labour

Labour

[
Charles Sprague Pearce (1896).] Labour or labor may refer to:

* Work of any kind
* Wage labour, in which a worker sells their labour and the employer buys it
* Manual labour, physical work done by people
* Childbirth, especially from the start of uterine contractions to delivery
* Labour (economics), one of the three main factors of production
* Labour economics, the economic field, broadly conceived, encompassing study of Labour (economics)
* Labour Party, a political party in various countries

*"Labour/Le Travail", an academic journal focusing on the Canadian labour movement.

*Josef Labor, a composer, pianist, organist, and teacher
*Labor, an obsolete unit of area

See also

* Labor movement, the development of a collective organization of working people
* Labor union, an association of wage-earners meant to maintain or improve conditions of employment
* Labor relations, the study of the relationship between management and workers
* Workforce, the labour pool, the people working in a company, industry, nation or other group
* Child labor, the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom
* Unfree labor, slavery or penal labour
* Bonded labor (debt bondage) is a system of unfree labour where a person must work to pay off a debt


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  • labour — la‧bour [ˈleɪbə ǁ ər] , labor noun [uncountable] 1. work involving a lot of physical or mental effort: • The garage charges £65 an hour for labour. • those involved in repetitive, unskilled manual labour (= work that involves using your …   Financial and business terms

  • labour — (US & Austral. labor) ► NOUN 1) work, especially hard physical work. 2) workers collectively. 3) (Labour) the Labour Party. 4) the process of childbirth. ► VERB 1) work hard …   English terms dictionary

  • labour — Labour, ou labourage, Cultus agrorum, Agricultura, Aratio, Agricolatio. Qui est en labour, Ager cultus et nitidus. B. Labour de terre, Molitio agrorum. Entretenir le labour, Tenere studia agri colendi. Qui se cognoist au labour, Prudens… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • labour — Labour. s. m. La façon qu on donne aux terres en les labourant. Il faut donner deux labours à cette terre. on luy a donné tant pour son labour. il luy faut payer ses labours & semences. On appelle, Chevaux de labour, Les chevaux dont on se sert… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • labour — British English spelling of LABOR (Cf. labor) (q.v.); for spelling, see OR (Cf. or). As short for the British Labour Party it is from 1906 …   Etymology dictionary

  • labour — la bour, n. Same as {labor}; British spelling. [Chiefly Brit.] [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Labour — (spr. Labuhr), ehemalige Landschaft im südwestlichen Frankreich, Theil der Gascogne; Hauptstadt war Bayonne …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Labour — er det engelske arbejderparti …   Danske encyklopædi

  • labour — is the standard spelling in BrE, whereas labor is the standard form in AmE …   Modern English usage

  • labour — [lā′bər] n., vi., vt. Brit. sp. of LABOR …   English World dictionary

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