work

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Thing sociological_concept Q268378
work
Ford Madox Brown · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

work is a sociological concept[1]. work draws 4,251 Wikipedia views per month (sociological concept category, ranking #15 of 51).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: economic concept[3]
  • Subclass of: economic activity[4]
  • Commons category: Labour[5]
  • Said to be the same as: job activity[6]
  • Opposite of: leisure[7], recreation[8]
  • Has part(s): task[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Labor[10]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Work[11]
  • Described by source: Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[12], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[13], Gender Glossar[14], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15], Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana[16], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[17], Pax Leksikon[18]
  • Topic has template: Template:Labor[19]
  • Has characteristic: occupational stress[20]
  • Different from: Praca[21]
  • Studied by: labour economics[22], political science[23], sociology of work[24], work psychology[25]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Anthropology[26], WikiProject Economics[27], WikiProject Human rights[28], WikiProject Law[29], WikiProject Organized Labour[30], WikiProject Philosophy[31], WikiProject Ethics[32], Wikiproject Social and political philosophy[33], WikiProject Politics[34], WikiProject Sociology[35], WikiProject Occupations[36]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/labour[37]

Why It Matters

work has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] work is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . enciclopedia.cat. enciclopedia.cat. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . thenextweb.com. thenextweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3Clh6J
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  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000700-prace
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0000700-prace, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  3. 19w ago · O Breixo · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 193580
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Enciclopedia galega universal id: 193580"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 1810, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  5. 23w ago · GeertivpBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → sociological concept, economic concept
    Subclass of → economic activity
    Topic has template → Template:Labor
    Subclass of → —
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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