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labour

One of the factors of production, used to produce goods and provide services. Wages are the reward for labour. Labour demand and supply in a modern economy is determined by the size of the population, people's willingness to work, education and training levels, labour laws and regulations, and the overall health of the economy.

labour

Sequence of events in childbirth, from the first contraction of the womb through to delivery. There are three stages of labour, normally spread over some hours.



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The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop.
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And ye also, to whom life is rough labour and disquiet, are ye not very tired of life?
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All but the last three chapters of his latest, Labour Tactics and Strategy, was finished, and he had sufficient material on hand adequately to supply those chapters.
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