labor是什么意思？

A Bible—to be sure, a long book—required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn't looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.

Conflicts between labor and management.

For women,delayed marriage—which is related, in part, to labor market outcomes for men—may explain more of the increase in their living in the family home.

Generally, young women have had growing success in the paid labor market since 1960 and hence might increasingly be expected to be able to afford to live independently of their parents.

The survey finds that, in spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world—just as middle-aged and older women do.

Young adults with a college degree have fared much better in the labor market than their less-educated counterparts, which has in turn made it easier to establish their own households.

Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science, most are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

Changing the current energy system requires the systematic training of professionals and skilled labor.

Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor- pool momentum.

In sum:generous family-friendly policies do keep more women in the labor market,but they also tend to diminish their careers.

Young Americans already face a bleak labor market that cannot instill (注入) confidence about having children.

Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home; we never had that ethos (风气)," says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.

If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if you've been actively looking for work in the past four weeks; otherwise, you are "marginally attached to the labor force" and not actually unemployed

The report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just as gloomy as anticipated.

To move their companies to where labor is cheaper.

David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor

They can avoid doing much of the manual labor.

They are no match for illegal immigrants in labor skills

They had some labor problems, so your order will be shipped late.

A labor dispute at a bus company

Workers have the legal rights to refuse certain unsafe work assignments under two federal laws: the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the National Labor Relations Act.

The division of labor between men and women.

However, it is farmers that are pushing for the advancements due to ever-increasing labor vacancies, making it difficult to maintain large-scale operations.

The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, "Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest."

The strike comes in light of an unsuccessful 19 months of negotiations after the existing labor contract known as the Interactive Media Agreement expired in late 2014.

These new complications require the money and labor of many nations.