The modern labor laws cannot be credited, however, to labor activity alone. The new social atmosphere has provided a congenial milieu for this vast extension of state functions. The philanthropist, the statistician, and the sociologist have become potent allies of the labor legislator; and such non-labor organizations, as the American Association for Labor Legislation, have added their momentum to the movement. New ideals of social cooperation have been established, and new conceptions of the responsibilities of private ownership have been evolved.英文原著 · 《The Armies of Labor》
They were going to do away with the squatter in appearance, but he would still survive as a labour tenant. They might do away with the labour tenant, and he would still be surviving as a labour servant. How was the Government to distinguish between these? They had in the Cape a law which stated how many labour tenants a man should have upon his farm.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
Gompers has thus been the political watchman of the labor interests. Nothing pertaining, even remotely, to labor conditions escapes the vigilance of his Washington office. During President Wilson's administration, Gompers's influence achieved a power second to none in the political field, owing partly to the political power of the labor vote which he ingeniously marshalled, partly to the natural inclination of the dominant political party, and partly to the strategic position of labor in the war industries.英文原著 · 《The Armies of Labor》
LABOR AS THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF THE DOMAIN OF PROPERTY % 1. The Land cannot be appropriated. Universal Consent no Justification of Property. Prescription gives no Title to Property. Labor.--That Labor has no Inherent Power to appropriate Natural Wealth. That Labor leads to Equality of Property. That in Society all Wages are Equal. That Inequality of Powers is the Necessary Condition of Equality of Fortunes.英文原著 · 《What is Property》
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
Thus there had been not only a nominal but a real rise in his wages. Turning to the labourer, his cost of living was about 15s. In 1839, it was a little under 15s. In 1875. The articles he consumes have decreased in cost, while in the case of the artisan they have increased, because the labourer spends a much larger proportion of his wages on bread. The labourer's wages meanwhile have risen from 8s. to 12s. or 14s.; in 1839 he could not properly support himself on his wages alone.英文原著 · 《Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England》
Including his label maker, which has a label That says "Label Maker." And if you look really close at that label maker label, You'll see a label that says "Label." He's our guest; We can't just ask him to straighten our closet.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
By the time they get to our lab, make sure there is no lab.美剧 · 《Billions》
I came with her. I gotta say I'm opposed to child labor, like as a rule, but there are some kinds of labor that children are just better at.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
You had time to make a label for everything in this apartment Including the label maker, But you didn't have ten seconds to make one that said "urine cup"?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
And in studies we've just been doing in my lab, similar studies, And in studies we've just been doing in my lab, similar studies,演讲 · 《What do babies think ~ Alison Gopnik》