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distinguished between the capacity to do work, i.e. labour power, and the physical act of working, i.e. labour. Labour power exists in any kind of society, but on...

factory towns causing an influx of low-skilled labour and a concomitant decline in real wages and living standards for workers in urban areas. Prior to...

Labour laws (also spelled as labor laws), labour code or employment laws are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade...

labour is the predominant form of work, the term "wage" sometimes refers to all forms (or all monetary forms) of employee compensation. Wage labour involves...

current labour cost which determines the value of output. So in a developed market Marx's exchange value refers to the average quantity of living labour which...

Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically...

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with...

Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard...

mainly, the London Living Wage, to ensure more Londoners reach a decent standard of living. Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party in opposition...

The division of labour is the separation of the tasks in any economic system or organisation so that participants may specialise (specialisation). Individuals...

Labour economics, or labor economics, seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied...

stated that "Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks." Property is theft...

during Labour's time in office largely as a result of various tax and benefit reforms. Labour's time in office also saw a steady rise in living standards...

"Labour is not a commodity" is the principle expressed in the preamble to the International Labour Organization's founding documents. It expresses the...

as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024 and as Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. Previously Leader of HM Opposition from 2020 to 2024,...

result of forced labour under the Nazis. After the invasion of Poland, Polish Jews over the age of 12 and Poles over the age of 12 living in the General...

International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards...

another's surplus labour, which is the amount of labour exceeding what is necessary for the reproduction of a worker's labour power and basic living conditions...

Blue Labour is a British campaign group and political faction that seeks to promote blue-collar and culturally conservative values within the British Labour...

Wage labour (also wage labor in American English), usually referred to as paid work, paid employment, or paid labour, refers to the socioeconomic relationship...