Labor

Labor

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

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industrial democracy

Labor; Labor relations

A phrase once used to describe unions as a humanizing force at the workplace. In the 1970s it is corning to mean worker participation in management decisionmaking.

indentured servant

Labor; Labor relations

A person bound through a contract to the service of another for a specified amount of time.

improvement factor

Labor; Labor relations

An annual wage increase negotiated by the union and management which recognizes that the rising productivity of workers contributes to the company's profitability.

incentive pay

Labor; Labor relations

A system based on the amount of production turned out by workers.

impressment

Labor; Labor relations

The act of forcing American seamen into the service of the British Navy.

hot cargo

Labor; Labor relations

A clause in a union contract which says that workers cannot be compelled to handle goods from an employer involved in a strike.

stakhanovite

Labor; Labor relations

A stakhanovite is a worker, particularly someone in manual labor, who works excessively hard and overachieves. It is named after one Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov, a miner in mid ...