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  • 1free labour — noun 1. Voluntary, not slave, labour 2. (the labour of) workers who do not belong to a trade union • • • Main Entry: ↑free …

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  • 2Council of Free Labour Unions — CCSL redirects here. For other uses, see CCSL (disambiguation). CCSL Full name Council of Free Labour Unions Native name Conferência Cabo Verdiana de Sindicatos Livres Members 18,000 Country Cape Verde Key people …

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  • 3Free Villages — is the term used for Caribbean settlements, particularly in Jamaica, founded in the 1830s and 1840s independent of the control of plantation owners and other major estates.Pioneering the conceptStarting in the 1830s, in anticipation of… …

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  • 4labour-market — In a labour market, human effort (or labour power) is made into a commodity, which is bought and sold under terms which in law are deemed to constitute a contract. The purchase and sale of formally free labour developed extensively with… …

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  • 5free — adj., adv., & v. adj. (freer; freest) 1 not in bondage to or under the control of another; having personal rights and social and political liberty. 2 (of a State, or its citizens or institutions) subject neither to foreign domination nor to… …

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  • 6Labour movement — The term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and governments, in particular through the… …

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  • 7labour — I UK [ˈleɪbə(r)] / US [ˈleɪbər] noun Word forms labour : singular labour plural labours *** 1) [uncountable] economics the workers in a particular country, industry, or company considered as a group the declining demand for labour in agriculture… …

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  • 8Labour 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 …

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  • 9Labour 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,… …

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  • 10Labour 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… …

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