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  Labour or labor may refer to:

  • Work
    Work

    Work may refer to:In physics:* Mechanical work, the amount of energy transferred by a force* Work , the quantity of energy transferred from one system to another...
     of any kind
  • Wage labour
    Wage labour

    Wage labour is the socioeconomics relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their Manual labour under a contract , and the employer buys it, often in a labour market.It is the effort that people devote to a task for which they are paid The products of labour become the employer's property....
    , in which a worker sells their labour and the employer buys it
  • Manual labour
    Manual labour

    Manual labour is physical work done with the hands, especially in an unskilled employment such as fruit and vegetable picking, road building, or any other field where the work may be considered physically arduous, and which has as a profitable objective, usually the production of good s....
    , physical work done by people
  • Childbirth
    Childbirth

    Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the delivery of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal human childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and delivery of the infant, and delivery of the placenta.....
    , especially from the start of uterine contractions to delivery
  • Labour (economics), one of the three main factors of production
  • Labour economics
    Labour economics

    Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the market for labour . Labour markets function through the interaction of workers and employers....
    , the economic field, broadly conceived, encompassing study of Labour (economics)
  • Labour Party
    Labour Party

    The name Labour Party, Labor Party or similar is used by several political party around the world, particularly common in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations....
    , a political party in various countries


  • Labour/Le Travail
    Labour/Le Travail

    Labour/Le Travail is an academic journal which publishes articles on the trade union movement in the Canada, sociology, labour economics, and labor relations....
    , an academic journal focusing on the Canadian labour movement.


  • Josef Labor
    Josef Labor

    Josef Labor was a pianist, organist, and composer of late Romantic music. Labor was an influential music teacher. As a friend of some key figures in Vienna, his importance was enhanced....
    , a composer, pianist, organist, and teacher
  • Labor
    Obsolete Spanish and Portuguese units of measurement

    There are a number of Spanish and Portuguese units of measurement of length or area that are now obsolete. They include the vara, the cordel, the league and the labor....
    , an obsolete unit of area


See also

  • Labor movement, the val of a collective organization of working people
  • Labor union, an association of wage-earners meant to maintain or improve conditions of employment
  • Labor relations
    Labor relations

    The field of industrial relations looks at the relationship between management and workers, particularly groups of workers represented by a trade union....
    , the study of the relationship between management and workers
  • Workforce
    Workforce

    The workforce is the labour pool in employment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single Types of companies or industry, but can also apply to a geographic region like a city, country, state, etc....
    , the labour pool, the people working in a company, industry, nation or other group
  • Child Labour, 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