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:
“By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman? Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers, and looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.”
—Apocrypha. Zorobabel, in Esdras I 4:22-24.
“I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a kind of desiccated calculating machine.”
—Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)
“Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labour which its possessor will take in exchange for it.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)