Work

Work may refer to:

Human labor

• Employment, a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee
• House work, cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a home
• Labor (economics), measure of the work done by human beings
• Manual labour, physical work done by people
• Wage labour, in which a worker sells their labor and an employer buys it
• Work (project management), the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task
• Working the system, using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired outcome

Physics

• Work (physics), the amount of work done by, or energy transferred by, a force acting through a distance
• Work (electrical), the work done by, or energy transferred by, a force from an electric field acting on a charge though a distance
• Work (thermodynamics), the quantity of total energy transferred from one system to another, not counting energy transfered by heat

Theology

• Karma, or "deed" in Sanskrit, causes the cycle of cause and effect, or Saṃsāra, in Indian religions
• Work (Christian theology), acts of charity

Law

• Work, the subject matter of copyright law

Film/Media

• Work (1915 film), a 1915 silent film co-starring Edna Purviance
• WORK (FM), an American FM radio station licensed to serve Barre, Vermont
• Work (professional wrestling), a staged event
• Work (painting), by Ford Madox Brown
• Work: A Story of Experience, a 1873 novel by Louisa May Alcott
• Work, a 1978 play by Ron Milner

Music

• The Work (band), band
• Work Records (aka "WORK" or "The WORK Group"), a music label under Sony Records
• Work 1989–2002, a release by the electronic music duo Orbital
• "Work" (Ciara song), a 2009 single by Ciara
• "Work" (Jars of Clay song), a 2006 song by Jars of Clay
• "Work" (Jimmy Eat World song), a 2004 song by the rock band Jimmy Eat World
• "Work", a song by Bob Marley from his album Uprising
• "Work" (Kelly Rowland song), a 2007 single by Kelly Rowland
• "Work" (The Saturdays song), a 2008 song by British pop group The Saturdays
• Work Work, a song by N Dubz
• Work (album), a 2010 album by Shout Out Louds

Name

• Weorc or Work (Anglo-Saxon leader), who gave his name to Workington or 'Weorc-inga-tun', meaning the 'tun' (settlement) of the 'Weorcingas' (the people of Weorc or Work)

See also

• Labour (disambiguation)
• The Works (disambiguation)
• Works (disambiguation)
• Working (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Work"
• All pages beginning with "Work"