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hours of labour

the proportion of a person's time spent at work. Hours of labour have declined significantly since the middle of the 19th century, with workers in advanced industrial countries spending far fewer hours per year in a given place of work than they did formerly.

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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