Labour: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Labour (labor AE) can mean any one of the following things:

• Physical or mental work; exertion. Such work considered as supplying the needs of a community. A particular task, especially of a difficult nature.

• In economics, one of the three main factors of production. The term labor refers to work done by human employees. It is distinct from labor-power or human capital, which represent an employee's ability to work. See: Labour (economics), Labor market.

• Manual work or the people who do manual work, see manual labor.

• Labor movement, Labor union

• Labour Party: see: Australian Labor Party, British Labour Party, Irish Labour Party, Israeli Labor Party, New Zealand Labour Party, Partij van de Arbeid

• The process of childbirth, especially the period from the start of uterine contractions to delivery.

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• Protestant work ethic