Sep 6, 2011 · : the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits. Industry needs labor for production. The institute … lacks the ready supply …

LABOR definition: productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain. See examples of labor used in a sentence.

Farming has been mechanized, reducing the need for labor. The older generation were bent double from decades of labor in the fields. Society is challenging the traditional sexual division of labor. There has …

Definition of labor noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [uncountable] work, especially physical work. The price will include the labor and materials. The company wants to keep down labor …

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Although the word labor seems to suggest tough, physical work that makes you sweat, any type of work, whether physical or mental, can be considered labor. Labor is usually associated with very hard, …

If you continue to believe something that is not true, you are laboring under a delusion/misapprehension/misconception. He still labors under the delusion that other people value …

Despite the inefficiency, labor services could have survived under previous regimes because of path-dependence. In short, technical change in lowland areas has significantly increased demand for …

This booklet provides the history of Josiah White and his manual labor institutes for children. This focuses on the one in Wabash County, Indiana, founded in the early 1850s. It has general history of …

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.