Meanings (ES + gloss)
campesinos • trabajadores
Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid…
parición • paritorio • parto
The act of a mother giving birth.
Paul Doherty came to the rescue when his wife Georgina went into labour early just minutes from their local hospital.
Phrases
Sisyphean labouranti-labouraristocracy of labourback labourbig labourbonded labourchild labourcompound labourdivision of labouremotional labourforced labourhard labourin labourlaboritelabour actionlabour aristocracylabour camplabour courtlabour exchangelabour forcelabour lawlabour lawyerlabour marketlabour of lovelabour powerlabour relationslabour sharelabour the pointlabour theory of valuelabour unionlabour value theorylabour-intensivelabour-saverlabour-savinglabour-value theorylabouresslabourouslaboursomelip-labourmanual labour
Meanings (ES + gloss)
trabajar
To toil, to work.
"Crab" 2-6-0 No 42802 labours up to Beattock Summit with a northbound freight from Carlisle in August 1960.
Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; ma…