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Working poor
Working poor: people employed for substantial periods yet below a poverty line. Also called in-work poverty. US BLS counts 6.1 million (3.8% of long-term labor force, 2023); EU in-work at-risk-of-poverty rate is 8.2%.
Working time
Working time, also known as working hours or hours of work, is the time people spend in paid employment, measured by legal limits, contracts, or hours actually worked.
Working Title Films
Working Title Films: British film and TV production company founded 1984 by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, led with Eric Fellner; maker of Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Billy Elliot; Universal subsidiary since 1998.
Working-class literature
Working-class literature is writing by, about, or in political service of the working class, with industrial labor, everyday life, or class conflict as its central subject.
Working!!
Working!! (Wagnaria!!): Karino Takatsu's four-panel seinen comedy manga, Young Gangan 2005-2014, 13 volumes, set in the Hokkaido family restaurant Wagnaria; three A-1 Pictures TV anime seasons (2010, 2011, 2015) plus the 2016 webcomic adaptation WWW.WORKING!!.
Workingman's Dead
Released in 1970, Workingman's Dead is the Grateful Dead's fourth studio album. It marked a shift from psychedelic sound to acoustic-rooted country, folk, and blues songs.
Workington
Workington AFC, called Workington Reds, is an English football club in Workington, Cumbria; a Football League member 1951-1977, now in the Northern Premier League at Borough Park, with a new shared stadium planned.
Workiva
Workiva Inc., founded in Ames, Iowa in 2008 as WebFilings, is an American software-as-a-service company whose cloud platform connects and reports business data for financial reporting, sustainability, and compliance, serving more than 6,600 organizations.
Workload
Workload is the total amount of work an individual, department, or team must carry out in a given period, and the fit between those demands and available capacity.
Workmen's Village, Amarna
The Workmen's Village, also known as the Amarna Workmen's Village, is a walled workers' settlement built by Akhenaten around 1350 BCE to house the tomb builders of Akhetaten.
Workover
A workover is a maintenance operation on a completed oil or gas well to restore or increase production, typically requiring the well to be killed.
Workplace
Workplace: the place or physical location of work or employment (MeSH D017132, 1993). Covers offices, factories, and remote settings; central to occupational health, safety law, and hybrid work arrangements.
Workplace bullying
Workplace bullying, also called bullying in the workplace, is repeated negative acts such as humiliation and verbal abuse that persist for six months or more, leaving the target in an inferior position.
Workplace democracy
Workplace democracy: practices and institutions giving workers autonomy and decision rights at work, via cooperatives, codetermination, works councils, and unions; evidence on effects and forms.
Workplace harassment
Workplace harassment is unwelcome conduct at work, treated as discrimination in the US, UK, and EU when linked to a protected characteristic or sexual in nature.
Workplace health & safety
Workplace Health & Safety (WH&S), also AAOHN Journal, is the monthly peer-reviewed official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, published by Sage since 2015, Scopus Q1, CiteScore 3.9, ISSNs 2165-0799 and 2165-0969.
Workpoint Entertainment Public Company Limited
Workpoint Entertainment Public Company Limited is a Thai television production company, founded in 1989, that produces game shows, operates the Workpoint channel, and manages T-pop groups like 4EVE.
Workrise
Workrise Technologies Inc., better known as RigUp, is an Austin, Texas company founded in 2014 by Xuan Yong and Michael Witte that builds workforce-management software for energy companies.
Works and Days
Works and Days (Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι) is an 828-line didactic poem traditionally ascribed to Hesiod and dated to around 700 BCE, urging his brother Perses toward justice and honest labor.
Works based on the Amityville haunting
Works based on the Amityville haunting: books, films, and TV derived from the 1974 DeFeo murders and the Lutz family's claimed haunting at 112 Ocean Avenue, starting with Jay Anson's 1977 book and the 1979 film, plus dozens of sequels, remakes, and name-only titles.
Works by Jesse Eisenberg
Works by Jesse Eisenberg: filmography and creative output of American actor-filmmaker Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born 1983), known for The Social Network, Zombieland, Lex Luthor, and his writer-director films When You Finish Saving the World and A Real Pain.
Works council
A works council (Betriebsrat) is an elected body of employee representatives in a single firm, with statutory consultation rights but no power to bargain wages or strike.
Works of Antoni Gaudí
Works of Antoni Gaudí (Obras de Antoni Gaudí): UNESCO serial World Heritage property of seven Gaudí buildings in and near Barcelona, inscribed 1984 and extended 2005 under criteria (i), (ii), (iv), dossier 320bis.
Works of Kalidasa
The works of Kalidasa (कालिदास कृतियाँ) are seven Sanskrit poems and plays, including three dramas and the famous Abhijnanashakuntala, composed around 400 CE at the Gupta court.
Works of mercy
The works of mercy are seven corporal and seven spiritual charitable actions in Catholic teaching, drawn chiefly from Matthew 25 and formalized by the twelfth century.
Works of Rabindranath Tagore
Works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর): the Bengali polymath's output of nearly 60 verse volumes, 2,265 songs in Gitabitan (Rabindrasangit), 14 novels including Gora and Ghare-Baire, plays, and essays; Gitanjali (1912 English) won the 1913 Nobel Prize.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a US federal agency created by Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 to hire unemployed workers on public projects, peaking at 3.3 million workers.
Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
The Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), since renamed the World Symposium, is a biennial single-track meeting on robot algorithms founded in San Francisco in 1994.
Workspace analysis
Workspace analysis studies the set of poses a manipulator's end-effector can reach, a key design parameter determined by geometric, analytical, and discretization methods, including Monte Carlo sampling.
Workstation
A workstation, or computer workstation, is a high-performance computer for professional work such as engineering and design, defined by error-correcting memory and certified software compatibility.