• Work in Literature
• Agathon
• Aristophanes
• Blanchot
• Dio Chrysostom
• Euripides
• Goethe
• Hesiod
• Iliad
• Jünger
• Linhart
• Looking Backward
• Man who was Thursday
• News from Nowhere
• Odyssey
• Plutarch
• Romulus, My Father
• Satire of the Trades
• Slave Narratives
• Soul of Man under Socialism
• Toilers of the Sea
• Utopian / Dystopian Literature
• Works and Days (Hesiod)

References for Theme: Work in Literature

• Allmendinger, Blake
• The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture (1992)

• Barthas, Louis
• "Poilu" (1978)

• Bromell, Nicholas K
• By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America (1993)

• Cavazzini, Andrea
• "Le travail et ses spectres. Un parcours archéologique" (2017)

• Dowd, Michelle M
• Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2009)

• Erbeznik, Elizabeth
• "Workers and Wives as Legible Types in Eugène Sue's" Les Mystères de Paris"" (2013)

• Hapke, Laura
• Tales of the working girl: wage-earning women in American literature, 1890-1925 (1992)

• Johnson, Claudia Durst
• Labor and Workplace Issues in Literature (2006)

• Karanika, Andromache
• Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece (2014)

• Knapp, James F
• Literary Modernism and the Transformation of Work (1988)

• Langland, William
• Piers the Ploughman (2006)

• Louttit, Chris
• Dickens's secular gospel: work, gender, and personality (2009)

• Parker, Martin
• "Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture - By Carl Rhodes and Robert Westwood" (2009)

• Rivers, Bronwyn
• Women at Work in the Victorian Novel: The Question of Middle Class Women's Employment (2005)

• Rye, Gill; Browne, Victoria; Giorgio, Adalgisa; Jeremiah, Emily; Six, Abigail Lee
• Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe (2018)

• Satire of the Trades, in The Literature of Ancient Egypt
• Satire of the Trades, in The Literature of Ancient Egypt (2003)

  (p.432) 1. The beginning of the teaching which the man of Tjel named Dua-Khety made for his son named Pepy, while he sailed southwards to the Residence to place him in the school of writings among the children of the magistrates, the most eminent men of the Residence.2. Thereupon he spoke to him: Since I have seen those who have been beaten, it is to writings that you must set your mind. See for yourself, it saves one from work. Behold, there is nothing that surpasses writings! They are like a boat upon the water. Read then at the end of...

• Shteyngart, Gary
• Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel (2011)

• Thompson, Edward P
• "Romanticism, Utopianism and Moralism: The Case of William Morris" (1976)

• Vöing, Nerea
• Arbeit und Melancholie: Kulturgeschichte und Narrative in der Gegenwartsliteratur (2019)

• Zakreski, Patricia
• Representing female artistic labour, 1848--1890: refining work for the middle-class woman (2016)