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• labour, hours of —       the proportion of a person s time spent at work. Hours of labour have declined significantly since the middle of the 19th century, with workers in advanced industrial countries spending far fewer hours per year in a given place of work than …   Universalium

• Labour economics — seeks to understand the functioning of the market and dynamics for labour. Labour markets function through the interaction of workers and employers. Labour economics looks at the suppliers of labour services (workers), the demanders of labour… …   Wikipedia

• labour — /lay beuhr/, n., v.i., v.t., adj. Chiefly Brit. labor. Usage. See or1. * * * I In economics, the general body of wage earners. In classical economics, labour is one of the three factors of production, along with capital and land. Labour can also… …   Universalium

• Labour law — concerns the inequality of bargaining power between employers and workers. Labour law (also called labor law or employment law) is the body of laws, administrative rulings, and precedents which address the legal rights of, and restrictions on,… …   Wikipedia

• Labour and Labour Legislation — • Labour is work done by mind or body either partly or wholly for the purpose of producing utilities Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Labour and Labour Legislation     Labour and Labour Legislation …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Labour power — (in German: Arbeitskraft , or labour force) is a crucial concept used by Karl Marx in his critique of capitalist political economy. He regarded labour power as the most important of the productive forces. Under capitalism, according to Marx, the… …   Wikipedia

• Labour productivity — is defined by the OECD to be the ratio of a volume measure of output to a volume measure of input OECD Manual: “Measuring Productivity; Measurement of Aggregate and Industry Level Productivity Growth.” (2002) Volume measures of output are… …   Wikipedia

• labour — la‧bour [ˈleɪbə ǁ ər] , labor noun [uncountable] 1. work involving a lot of physical or mental effort: • The garage charges £65 an hour for labour. • those involved in repetitive, unskilled manual labour (= work that involves using your …   Financial and business terms

• labour law —    Labour law was consolidated as a legal system in Spain during the period of Primo de Rivera s Dictatorship (1923–9) and the Second Republic (1931–6). The constitution of the Second Republic (1931) provided the foundation for a systematic… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

• Labour and tax laws in Iran — govern the employment and fiscal contributions of people working and living in Iran. Roughly one fourth of Iran s labour forc is engaged in manufacturing and construction. Another one fifth is engaged in agriculture, and the remainder are divided …   Wikipedia

• Labour market flexibility — refers to the speed with which labour markets adapt to fluctuations and changes in society, the economy or production.DefinitionIn the past, the most common definition of labour market flexibility was the neo liberal definition. This entailed the …   Wikipedia