Alternative spellings

• labor (US)

Noun

Singular labour

Plural countable and uncountable; plural labours

labour (countable and uncountable; plural labours) (British, Canadian)

1. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
2. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
3. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
4. The act of a mother giving birth
5. The time period during which a mother gives birth.

Labour or labor may refer to:

• Work of any kind
• Wage labour, in which a worker sells their labour and the employer buys it
  • Employment
• 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

Labor is work of any kind

• The labor movement was the development of a collective organization of working people
• A labor union is an association of wage-earners meant to maintain or improve conditions of employment

Contents

• 1 Sourced
  • 1.1 Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
• 2 Unsourced
• 3 See also
• 4 External links

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Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will.
  • Henry Ward Beecher, p. 368.

• Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
  • Henry Ward Beecher, p. 438.

• Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled, And care is light, for Thou hast cared; Let not our works with self be soiled, Nor in unsimple ways ensnared. Through life's long day and death's dark night, O gentle Jesus! be our light.
  • Frederick William Faber, p. 369.

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