Labour
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"Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour… By incorporating living labour-power into the material constituents of capital, the latter becomes an animated monster."--Das Kapital, 1867, Karl Marx "I owe my soul to the company store."--"Sixteen Tons" (1946) by Merle Travis |
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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
Other:
- 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
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See also
- Division of labor
- Labour 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
- Labour 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 labour, the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom
- Unfree labour, 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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