Labour (Commonwealth English) or labor (American English) can mean any one of the following things: Commonwealth English is intended as a collective term for the perceived standard English language used in the Commonwealth of Nations1, applying in theory to Australian English, British English, Caribbean English, Canadian English, Hiberno-English (Irish English)2, Hong Kong English, Indian English (includes Pakistani English), New Zealand English, and South... American English is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ...

• Physical or mental work; exertion. Such work considered as supplying the needs of a community. A particular task, especially of a difficult nature. See: Labour (philosophy)

• In economics, one of the three main factors of production. The term labor refers to work done by human employees. It is distinct from labor-power or human capital, which represent an employee's ability to work. See: Labour (economics), Labour market.

• Manual work or the people who do manual work, see manual labour.

• Labor movement, Labor union/Trade union, Labour policy

• Labour Party: see: British Labour Party, Australian Labor Party, Dutch Labour Party, Irish Labour Party, Israeli Labour Party, New Zealand Labour Party

• The process of childbirth, especially the period from the start of uterine contractions to delivery.

• Heavy construction equipment in the anime series PatLabor

... Economics (from the Greek οίκος [oikos], house, and νέμω [nemo], rules, hence household management) is the social science that studies the production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services in the context of the competing alternative allocations of goods and courses of action. ... Classical economics distinguishes between three factors of production which are used in the production of goods: Land or natural resources - naturally-occurring goods such as soil and minerals. ... According to Karl Marx, there is a clear distinction between labor and labor-power in economics. ... // General Human capital is a way of defining and categorizing peoples skills and abilities as used in employment and otherwise contribute to the economy. ... In classical economics and all micro-economics labour is one of four factors of production, the others being land, capital and enterprise. ... Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning of the market for labour. ... Manual labor is a term used for hard physical work done with the hands, especially in an unskilled manual job such as fruit and vegetable picking, et cetera. ... The labor movement (or labour movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments. ... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... ... The name Labour Party or Labor Party is used by several political parties around the world. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australias oldest political party. ... For the Belgian political party of the same name, see Partij van de Arbeid (Belgium). ... Logo of the Irish Labour Party The Irish Labour Party (Irish: Páirti an Lucht Oibre) is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. ... Labour (העבודה HaAvoda) is an Israeli political party. ... The New Zealand Labour Party is a New Zealand political party. ... Childbirth (also called labour, birth, or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy with the emergence of a newborn infant from its mothers uterus. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... Patlabor The Movie DVD cover Patlabor usually refers to the anime franchise known as Mobile Police Patlabor, which was originally created by the collective group Headgear. ...

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• Protestant work ethic
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