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 ... In 1944 he won another election 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 ... to the first federal Parliament as Labor MP for West Sydney ... He was Minister for External Affairs in Chris Watson's first Labor government ...
... 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 ... a result of a pull created by a need for labor in the developed countries in their secondary market ...
... 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 ...
... which means "reform through labor," is a slogan of the Chinese criminal justice system and has been used to refer to the use of prison labor and prison farms in the People's Republic of China (PRC) ... Laogai is distinguished 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 ... Both systems, however, involve penal labor ...
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 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): 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
- (noun): Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
Example: "His labor did not require a great deal of skill"
Synonyms: labour, toil
- (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 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
Famous quotes containing the word labor:
“Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing, and this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month’s labor in the farmer’s almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)