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Labour Exchange
Also with lower-case initials.
[labour n. 2 + exchange n.]
1. An establishment for the exchange of the products of labour without the use of money. Also attrib. Now only Hist.
1832Crisis 28 Apr. 16/1 Mr. B. Warden..stated that they had erected a new school, called a Labour Exchange School. Ibid. 25 Aug. 97/3 To investigate the Principles upon which the proposed Equitable Labour Exchange was to be founded. Ibid. 6 Oct. 122/1 Labour Exchange notes... Labour Exchange banks. 1894B. Jones Co-operative Production I. 90 The exchange was opened on September 3, 1832, under the title of ‘The Equitable Labour Exchange’. 1906G. J. Holyoake Hist. Co-operation in Eng. (rev. ed.) I. 65 The Labour Exchange was not Mr. Owen's idea, but he adopted it.
2. An office serving as a means of connection between workers and employers, esp. one forming part of an organization to assist in the finding of employment. Also attrib.
1869C. L. Brace New West v. 53 One of the remarkable instances of the intelligence and humanity of this new community was the establishment, in 1868, of the ‘Labor Exchange’. 1893Rep. Agencies & Methods Unemployed 15 in Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 7182) LXXXII. 377 Registry offices..for shore labourers having the title of the ‘British Labour Exchange’. 1896J. A. Hobson Probl. Unemployed 130 If the Bureaux are to perform effectively the work of Labour Exchanges. 1911R. Brooke Let. 20 Apr. (1968) 299, I share the Old Vicarage with the Labour Exchange man. 1958New Statesman 22 Feb. 224/3 It hankers after the seaplane factory, the oil refinery, the atomic power station—‘better a line of pylons than a line outside the labour exchange’. 1973[see job centre s.v. job n.2 7].
3. The finding of employment for workers.
1896J. A. Hobson Probl. Unemployed 128 No system of mere labour-exchange, however well-conducted, would increase the total quantity of employment over a long area of time. |