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Labor

The body of persons, or the human physical and mental effort, engaged in the production of goods and services.

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separation pay

Labor; Labor relations

Payment to a worker who is permanently laid off his job through no fault of his own.

seniority

Labor; Labor relations

A worker's length of service with an employer. In union contracts, seniority often determines layoffs from work and recalls back to work.

secondary boycott

Labor; Labor relations

An effort to disrupt the business of an employer through boycott techniques, even though his own workers are not directly involved in the labor dispute.

scab

Labor; Labor relations

A worker who refuses to join the union or who works while others are striking. Also known as a "strikebreaker. "

sabotage

Labor; Labor relations

From the French word "sabot" or wooden shoe which workers threw into the machines to keep them from working. Workers have been perpetually fearful that new machines would take ...

right to work laws

Labor; Labor relations

The term used by opponents of unions to institute open shop laws in the state. The expression has nothing to do with guaranteeing anyone the right to a job.

redemptioner

Labor; Labor relations

A white emigrant from Europe who paid for his or her voyage to the New World by serving as a servant for a specific period of time. Also known as a freewiller.