Labour

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Labor might refer to:

• Labor, an obsolete unit of area
• Josef Labor, a composer, pianist, organist, and teacher
• Labor, Slovenia

Labour or labor might refer to:

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

Other:

• Childbirth, especially from the start of uterine contractions to delivery
• Labour economics, the study of labour as one of the three main factors of production
• Labour Party, a political party in various countries
• Labour/Le Travail, an academic journal focusing on the Canadian labour movement.
• Labor Day, US national holiday

Noun

labour (countable and uncountable; plural labours) (UK, Canadian)

1. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
2. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
3. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
4. The act of a mother giving birth
5. The time period during which a mother gives birth.

Usage notes

Like many other words ending in -our/-or, this word is spelled labour in the UK and labor in the U.S.; in Canada, labour is preferred, but labor is not unknown. In Australia, where labour is the usual spelling, labor is nonetheless enshrined in the name of the Australian Labor Party, reflecting the fact that the -or endings had some currency in Australia in the past.

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will.
  • Henry Ward Beecher, p. 368.

• Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
  • Henry Ward Beecher, p. 438.

• Blessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Know thy work, and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
  • Thomas Carlyle, p. 367.

• Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled, And care is light, for Thou hast cared; Let not our works with self be soiled, Nor in unsimple ways ensnared. Through life's long day and death's dark night, O gentle Jesus! be our light.
  • Frederick William Faber, p. 369.

• No man is base who does a true work; for true action is the highest being. No man is miserable that does a true work; for right action is the highest happiness. No man is isolated that does a true work; for useful action is the highest harmony — it is the highest harmony with nature and with souls — it is living association with men — and it is practical fellowship with God.
  • Henry Giles, p. 369.

• Man must work. That is certain as the sun. But he may work grudgingly, or he may work gratefully; he may work as a man, or he may work as a machine. He cannot always choose his work, but he can do it in a generous temper, and with an up-looking heart. There is no work so rude, that he may not exalt it; there is no work so impassive, that he may not breathe a soul into it; there is no work so dull, that he may not enliven it.
  • Henry Giles, p. 369.

• A man's labors must pass like the sunrises and sunsets of the world. The next thing, not the last, must be his care.
  • George MacDonald, p. 369.

• Labor is not, as some have erroneously supposed, a penal clause of the original curse. There was labor, bright, healthful, unfatiguing, in unfallen Paradise. By sin, labor became drudgery — the earth was restrained from her spontaneous fertility, and the strong arm of the husbandman was required, not to develop, but to "subdue" it. But labor in itself is noble, and is necessary for the ripe unfolding of the highest life.
  • William Morley Punshon, p. 367.

• Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.
  • William Morley Punshon, p. 367.

• God does not give excellence to men but as the reward of labor.
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds, p. 367.

• Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds, p. 367.

• The virtues, like the body,become strong more by labor than by nourishment.
  • Jean Paul, p. 368.

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