At the end of the Second World War, it took the British working man about six hours of Labour a day to feed a family of four; a figure which has now dropped by two thirds.

在第二次世界大战末期，英国工人每天要劳动六小时来养活四口之家；这个数字如今已经降低了三分之二。

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If, with the same number of hours of Labour, the income of the society in a given year was only half as big as in the previous year, then the value of each receipt would likewise be halved.

如果在劳动小时不变的情况下，某一年社会所得仅只有前一年的一半，那么，每一工分价值将同样只有去年的一半。

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Is the number of direct Labour hours to produce the first unit?

K代表生产第一个单位所用的直接劳动时间。

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The general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union was speaking on the Labour conference fringe just hours after Tony Blair had given the party gathered in Brighton the highlight of its week - the leader's speech.

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They were also helped by the relative strength of the labour market: both jobs and hours fell significantly during the recent recession, but not nearly as far as they did in the 1980s.

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Indeed a classic demand of the 19th Century labour movement was "Eight hours labour, Eight hours recreation, Eight hours rest".

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