Labour or Labor may refer to:
- Employment
- Employment of any kind
- Manual labour, physical work done by people
- Wage labour, delivery of services by person for payment
- Additional labour & employment topics
- Child labour, the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom
- Debt bondage is a system of unfree labour where a person must work to pay off a debt
- Labour Day, a national holiday in many countries
- Labor Day, a federal holiday in the US
- Labour movement, the development of a collective organisation of working people
- Labour relations, the study of the relationship between management and workers
- Labour union, an association of wage-earners meant to maintain or improve conditions of employment
- Labour/Le Travail, an academic journal focusing on the Canadian labour movement.
- Unfree labour, slavery or penal labour
- Workforce, the labour pool, the people working in a company, industry, nation or other group
- Geography
- Labor, an obsolete unit of area
- Josef Labor, a composer, pianist, organist, and teacher
- Labor, Slovenia
Other:
- Childbirth, especially from the start of uterine contractions to delivery
- Labour Party, political parties named after the labour movement.
Famous quotes containing the word labour:
“You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“They shift coffee-houses and chocolate-houses from hour to hour, to get over the insupportable labour of doing nothing.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)