Manpower

Manpower

Manpower may refer to:

*Manpower, either an abstract term for human labour effort (as opposed to machines, animals etc.) or the number of human productive units available/needed for professional or other tasks, also used when referring to such personnel as a resource (e.g. "a manpower shortage")
*"Manpower", a 1941 film starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft
*Manpower, the workload one person can handle, compare to the term horsepower
*Manpower Inc., an international employment agency, headquartered in the US
* "Manpower (album)", a Hi-NRG album by Miquel Brown
*"The Manpower!!!", a song by Morning Musume
*Manpower Services Commission - a large building in Sheffield, England housing civil servants of the DfES and DWP
*Manpower, an all male revue from Australia of which Jamie Durie is a past member
*manPower (band), an electronica band from Missouri
* Manpower Incorporated (Honorverse), a fictional business in the series of Honor Harrington novels by David Weber, published by Baen Books.
*The Manpower Directorate [http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/homefront/reserved_occupations.asp] was a division of the Australian Government responsible for active service and support industry recruitment during World War II to combat labour shortages in strategic areas.
*Manpower, a slang term for erection.


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