Talk:Work (human activity)/Archive 1

Now an article
So I've written up a first draft for a general article on human work / labor: Thanks to everyone from here-on-out that helps with the article! Zar2gar1 (talk) 16:38, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I flagged the whole thing as needing more references since this isn't my specialty nor do I have library access right now.
 * Several paragraphs are also marked inline to add commentary, especially for stronger statements.
 * I started a list-defined reference section with a few easy, online citations too.
 * The main goal throughout was to seed a thorough article while avoiding controversial statements.
 * While I did pull it mostly out of my own head, I don't think there should be original synthesis or insight in it.
 * Some good books on the topic should (hopefully) back-up or correct almost everything I wrote.
 * Because I tried to avoid strong claims for now, it reads a bit like a wishy-washy essay, with some spots bordering on weasel words.
 * In the Description section, I was mainly trying to add some detail to get past the fuzzy edges of "what is work?"
 * The Tom Sawyer mention is sort of a non-sequitur with obvious American bias, but it was the clearest example of "work as state of mind" I could think of.
 * I added a request for images instead of putting in some myself...
 * Just a weird wiki-hangup of mine about posting pictures I haven't taken myself.

Possible move
For the discussion on possibly moving this article to the primary article for "Work" and/or "Labor", see the following page: Talk:Work --Zar2gar1 (talk) 16:38, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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 * Clerical worker at computer.jpg