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Labour (or labor) can mean any one of the following things:

Physical or mental work; exertion. Such work considered as supplying the needs of a community. A particular task, especially of a difficult nature.

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: Australian Labor Party, British Labour Party, Irish Labour Party, Israeli Labour Party, New Zealand Labour Party, Dutch Labour PartyFor the Belgian political party of the same name, see Partij van de Arbeid (Belgium). The Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA), or "Labour Party", is a social democratic political party in the Netherlands. The PvdA was formed on February 9, 1946, as a merger of th

The process of childbirthChildbirth (also called labour birth or parturition is the culmination of pregnancy, the emergence of a child from its mother's uterus. It can be considered the opposite of death, as it is the beginning of a person's life. Age is defined relative to this, especially the period from the start of uterine contractions to delivery.

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Protestant work ethicThe Protestant work ethic is a biblically based teaching on the necessity of hard work, perfection and the goodness of manual labor. It is part of old American culture of the 1800's and is seen as one of the cornerstones of American prosperity. Protestant

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