Work
Here are entered works on the physical or mental exertion of individuals to produce or accomplish something. Works on the collective human activities involved in the production and distribution of goods and services are entered under Labor.
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Broader term:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Work -- Periodicals
- Work -- Poetry
- Work -- Religious aspects
- Work -- Social aspects
- Entry-level employment
- Hours of labor
- Labor laws and legislation
- Non-standard employment
- Quality of work life
- Vocation
- Work in literature
- Work measurement
- Work, Alanson
- Industry (Psychology)
- Method of work
- Work, Method of
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The Crown of Wild Olive (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by John Ruskin- Essays on Work and Culture, by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Gutenberg text)
- The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
- The Value of Order (Deep River, CT: National Foremen's Institute, c1942), by Harry Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Will-Power and Work (third edition; New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co;, 1922), by Jules Payot, trans. by Richard Duffy
- System (1900-1927) (partial serial archives)
- The American Labor Legislation Review (partial serial archives)
- International Labour Review (partial serial archives)
- The American Labor Legislation Review (partial serial archives)
- The Glass-Blower and Other Poems, by Jan Struther (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Echoes From Labor's War: Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (introduction and poems), by Dawn Fraser (HTML with commentary at socialisthistory.ca)
- Love Your Work: Your Daily Work Can Be a Great Spiritual Resource (c1990), by David L. McKenna (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Zoe: The History of Two Lives, by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City (Situated Technologies pamphlet #7; New York: Architecture League of New York, 2010), by Trebor Scholz and Laura Y. Liu (PDF with commentary at archleague.org)
- College Grad Job Hunter: Insider Techniques and Tactics For Finding a Top-Paying Entry Level Job, by Brian D. Krueger (searchable HTML at collegegrad.com)
- Void Where Prohibited Revisited: The Trickle-Down Effect of OSHA's At-will Bathroom-Break Regulation (Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2003), by Marc Linder
- Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time (Ithaca and London: ILR Press, c1998), by Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard
- Comparison of an Eight-Hour Plant and a Ten-Hour Plant (Public health bulletin #106; Washington: GPO, 1920), by Josephine Goldmark and Mary Della Hopkins
- The Right to Be Lazy, by Paul Lafargue, trans. by Charles H. Kerr (HTML at marxists.org)
- Women in Alabama Industries: A Study of Hours, Wages, and Working Conditions (bulletin of the Women's Bureau, #34; Washington: GPO, 1924), by Kathleen B. Jennison Lowrie, contrib. by Elizabeth A. Hyde and Agnes L. Peterson (page images at Harvard)
- The Christmas Kalends of Provence, and Some Other Provençal Festivals (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by Thomas A. Janvier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs (c1891), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Old Christmas, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg text)
- Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving (London: Macmillan and Co., 1888), by Washington Irving, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (page images at openlibrary.org)
- An English Murder (c1951), by Cyril Hare (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Curse of the Factory System: or, A Short Account of the Origin of Factory Cruelties; Of the Attempts to Protect the Children by Law; Of Their Present Sufferings; Our Duty Towards Them; Injustice of Mr. Thomson's Bill; The Folly of the Political Economists; A Warning Against Sending the Children of the South into the Factories of the North (London : A. Cobbett, ca. 1836), by John Fielden (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act (Cardiff: D. Owen and Co., 1885), by E. Beavan
- The Case for the Shorter Work Day: Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1915, Franklin O. Bunting, Plaintiff in Error, vs. the State of Oregon, Defendant in Error: Brief for the Defendant in Error (reprint, 2 volumes in 1; New York: National Consumers League, 1916), by Felix Frankfurter and Josephine Goldmark (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Autocratically Flexible Workplace: A History of Overtime Regulation in the United States (Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2002), by Marc Linder
- Exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act, Transportation Sector (Minimum Wage Study Commission Working Paper #10; revised November 1980), by Conrad F. Fritsch (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Constitutional Amendment: or, The Sunday, the Sabbath, the Change, and Restitution, by Wolcott H. Littlejohn (page images at MOA)
- Reports of Commissioners on the Hours of Labor, by Massachusetts Commission on Hours of Labor (page images at MOA)
- Continuous Working Week in the Soviet Union (Series on the five year plan #2; ca. 1929), by Friends of the Soviet Union (Group) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Great Initiative: Including the Story of "Communist Saturdays" (Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, ca. 1919), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, trans. by P. Lavin
- The Great Initiative: Including the Story of "Communist Saturdays" (Detroit: Marxian Educational Society, ca. 1919), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, trans. by P. Lavin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cut Down the Hours of Work!, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)
- Blood and Steel: An Exposure of the 12-Hour Day in the Steel Industry (New York: Workers Party of America, ca. 1923), by Jay Lovestone (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Structure of Withdrawal: Relationships Among Estrangement, Tardiness, Absenteeism, and Turnover (Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 1980), by Nina Gupta and G. Douglas Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Women in Industry: The Eight Hours Day and Rest at Night, Upheld by the United States Supreme Court (Women in Industry series #13; New York: National Consumers' League, 1916), by Florence Kelley (page images at Harvard)
- The Case for the Shorter Work Day: Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1915, Franklin O. Bunting, Plaintiff in Error, vs. the State of Oregon, Defendant in Error: Brief for the Defendant in Error (reprint, 2 volumes in 1; New York: National Consumers League, 1916), by Felix Frankfurter and Josephine Goldmark (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Comparison of an Eight-Hour Plant and a Ten-Hour Plant (Public health bulletin #106; Washington: GPO, 1920), by Josephine Goldmark and Mary Della Hopkins
- The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays (New York: Century Co., 1901), by Andrew Carnegie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Holiday Facts and Fancies: Full Yet Simple Explanations of the American Holidays (Boston et al.: Educational Pub. Co., c1910), by Clara Janetta Fort Denton
- Dog and Duck (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Arthur Machen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (new edition, in 3 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Brand and Henry Ellis, contrib. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
- Void Where Prohibited Revisited: The Trickle-Down Effect of OSHA's At-will Bathroom-Break Regulation (Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2003), by Marc Linder
- Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time (Ithaca and London: ILR Press, c1998), by Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard
- Rights at Work: Global, European and British Perspectives (Hamlyn Lectures, #56; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2005), by B. A. Hepple (PDF in the UK)
- Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), by Michelle Robinson
- Literary Modernism and the Transformation of the Work (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by James F. Knapp (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Prison Life and Reflections, by George Thompson (page images at MOA)
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