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child labour 

Children working under age in a job with harsh conditions and their rights taken away such as right to education

A summer job or an internship is not child labour since you can still go to school and not badly paid
Did you hear that Nike uses child labour for cheap shoe production?!
child labour by LKZ_03 February 26, 2015

Emotional labour 

Emotional labour was originally a word for people who have to put a lot of uncompensated emotional effort into their job. Recently, however, it's more along the lines of "idk, it kinda sucks when I have to listen to my boyfriend" or "now that I've made my statement, I don't want to defend myself or back it up because it's emotionally laborious"
If you're willing to PayPal me $5 for the emotional labour, I'll explain my vague/ridiculous statement"
Emotional labour by Lefty Lucy August 10, 2018

New Labour 

Different to the old labour party, the became new labour in about 1994 when tony blair became leader and there heading for the right.
New Labour by Anonymous October 4, 2003

Australian Labour Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is an anachronistic organisation that purports to have a monopoly on social conscience and represent the working classes of Australia.

It is controlled by a caustic mixture of unionist bully boys who make "On the Waterfront" look like "Saturday Night Fever" and casuistic right-wing intellectuals posing as messianic left-wing intellectuals. Both groups share a common vision, namely the manipulation to their own (perhaps pecuniary and/or machavellian)ends of two corresponding strata of the Australian electorate.

One stratum is the worker and disadvantaged who perceives itself to be "abused" by the "boss". It is likely this perception is a hangover from the Australian penal/colonial mind set of "us and them" and may go some way toward explaining the Australian sense of inadequacy on the international political and cultural scene. (cf. sport and Australian supremacy -also consider Mark Twain's report that Sydneysiders were oddly proud of their harbour "ain't she beautiful"? as if they somehow had something to do with the matter, whereas it may be that they felt they had nothing to say about themselves!)

The other stratum are the advantaged who feel guilty for not being born disadvantaged. In a collective attempt to apologise for their sheer good fortune these sons and daughters of the advantaged suspend their intellectual capacity and turn to the ALP to salve their conscience.

The ALP, of course, cannot assuage their angst because it has no more a monopoly on social conscience than any other political organisation. These people quickly forget that it was the ALP who designed the White Australia Policy, reintroduced fees for teriary education during the Dawkins administration, sold out the worker via Keating's "level playing field" giving the Australian worker a whopping 19% rate on their mortgages, and rushed off headlong into the Gulf War when Hawke sent warships without discussing it with parliament.

Labor voters often cannot spell correctly.
Australian Labour Party by gromdadi September 18, 2005

New Labour 

New labour, old labour renamed in the hope that they would have a lib dem effect and all the young ones would love them which they do, they get to have asbo's to make them look tough, more people pass GCSE and AS levels (by taking as many resits as they want and the fact that its easy but thats not the point blair thinks)
Tries to get us all to loose weight and be healthy one word, Prescott, basically lib dems in red and in power.
New labour pah there all the same
New Labour by Emmzy February 12, 2006

Child Labour 

The way annoying British people say Child Labor, which by the way is super fun and 11/10 would recommend!
British Person: Eww did you hear about that Child Labour down in Alabama? Its hilarious!!
Child Labour by TurtleNugget912 January 25, 2020