Some articles on labor:
... In 1941 he became Premier when he led Labor to a convincing victory in the state elections, mainly by concentrating on country seats ... World War II he became a close collaborator of Labor Prime Ministers John Curtin and Ben Chifley, being a particularly close friend of the latter ... victory, the first time a New South Wales Labor government had been re-elected ...
... Unlike most Labor men, he was a strong supporter of Federation ... In 1901 Hughes was elected to the first federal Parliament as Labor MP for West Sydney ... for External Affairs in Chris Watson's first Labor government ...
... This is the newest theory of migration and states that the main reason for labor migration is wage difference between two geographic locations ... These wage differences are usually linked to geographic labor demand and supply ... It can be said that areas with a shortage of labor but an excess of capital have a high relative wage while areas with a high labor supply and a dearth of capital have a low relative wage ...
... abbreviation for Láodòng Gǎizào (勞動改造/劳动改造), which means "reform through labor," is a slogan of the Chinese criminal justice system and has been used to ... from laojiao, or re-education through labor, which is an administrative detention for a person who is not a criminal but has committed minor offenses, and is intended to reform offenders into law-abiding citizens ... Both systems, however, involve penal labor ...
... Dual labor market theory states that migration is mainly caused by pull factors in more developed countries ... This theory assumes that the labor markets in these developed countries consist of two segments primary, which requires high-skilled labor, and secondary, which is very ... countries is a result of a pull created by a need for labor in the developed countries in their secondary market ...
More definitions of "Labor":
- (noun): An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement).
Synonyms: labor movement, trade union movement
- (noun): A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages.
Example: "There is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
Synonyms: labour, working class, proletariat
- (noun): Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child.
Example: "She was in labor for six hours"
Synonyms: parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
- (verb): Undergo the efforts of childbirth.
Synonyms: labour
- (noun): A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries.
Synonyms: Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party
- (noun): Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
Example: "His labor did not require a great deal of skill"
Synonyms: labour, toil
- (noun): The federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913.
Synonyms: Department of Labor, Labor Department, DoL
Famous quotes containing the word labor:
“Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,—a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,—to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The habits of our whole species fall into three great classes—useful labour, useless labour, and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labor rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of its just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)