Labour may refer to:

• Work of any kind
• Wage labour, in which a worker sells their labour and the employer buys it
• Manual labour, physical work done by people
• 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

Look up work in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wage labour is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour under a contract (employment), and the employer buys it, often in a labour market. ... Manual labour (or manual labor) is physical work done with the hands, especially in an unskilled job such as fruit and vegetable picking, road building, or any other field where the work may be considered physically arduous, and which has as a profitable objective, usually the production of goods. ... Parturition redirects here. ... In classical economics and all micro-economics labour is a measure of the work done by human beings and is one of three factors of production, the others being land and capital. ... Construction workers generally work long hours for their pay Labor economics seeks to understand the functioning of the market and dynamics for labor. ... In classical economics and all micro-economics labour is a measure of the work done by human beings and is one of three factors of production, the others being land and capital. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...

See also

• Labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people
• Labour union, an association of wage-earners meant to maintain or improve conditions of employment
• Labour relations, the study of the relationship between management and workers
• Workforce, the labour pool, the people working in a company, industry, nation or other group
• Child labour, the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom
• Unfree labour, slavery or penal labour
• Bonded labour (debt bondage) is a system of unfree labour where a person must work to pay off a debt
• Labour file a bimonthly journal on Indian lanour

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= The labour movement or labor 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, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labor relations. ... 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 field of labor relations looks at the relationship between management and groups of workers represented by a labor union. ... The workforce is the labour pool in employment. ... Child labour or labor is the phenomenon of children in employment. ... Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for those work relations, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will by the threat of destitution, detention, violence (including death), or other extreme hardship to themselves, or to members of their families. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...