- 働く【はたらく】 - to work, to labor, to labour, to function, to operate, to be effective, to work (i.e. ... works), to come into play, to commit (e.g. a crime), to perpetrate, to do, to act, to practise, to practice, to be conjugated 
- 働き【はたらき】 - work, labor, labour, achievement, performance, ability, talent, salary, income, earnings, action, activity, workings, function, operation, movement, motion, conjugation, inflection 
- 労働者【ろうどうしゃ】 - worker, (manual) laborer, labourer, blue-collar worker 
- 労働【ろうどう】 - manual labor, manual labour, toil, work, Labour Party 
- 共働き【ともばたらき】 - (husband and wife) both working, dual income 
- 働かせる【はたらかせる】 - to put someone to work, to make someone work, to use, to apply, to exert, to exercise (restraint, one's imagination, one's brain, etc.) 
- 労働省【ろうどうしょう】 - Ministry of Labour (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) 
- 働き手【はたらきて】 - worker, breadwinner, supporter, able person, able man, productive worker 
- 労働党【ろうどうとう】 - Labour Party, Labor Party 
- 労働組合【ろうどうくみあい】 - labor union, labour union, trade union 
- 働き者【はたらきもの】 - hard worker, hardworking person 
- 稼働【かどう】 - operation (of a machine), running, working (and earning money) 
- 労働条件【ろうどうじょうけん】 - working conditions 
- 働き口【はたらきぐち】 - position, job, employment, opening 
- 労働基準法【ろうどうきじゅんほう】 - Labor Standards Act 
- 労働運動【ろうどううんどう】 - labour movement, labor movement 
- 稼働率【かどうりつ】 - operating rate, utilization rate, occupancy rate, availability factor 
- 働き盛り【はたらきざかり】 - prime of one's working life 
- 労働委員会【ろうどういいんかい】 - labor-relations board, labour-relations board 
- 重労働【じゅうろうどう】 - heavy labor, heavy labour, hard work, hard labor (in prison), hard labour