Working

Working may refer to:

  • Working (musical), a 1978 musical
  • Working (TV series), a situation comedy
  • Working (book), a book by Studs Terkel
  • Working!!, a manga by Karino Takatsu
  • Holbrook Working (1895–1985), statistician and economist
  • Working the system, using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired outcome
  • Cold working, the strengthening of a metal by plastic deformation
  • Hot working, processes where metals are plastically deformed above their recrystallization temperature
  • Multiple working, having more than one locomotive hauling a train under the control of one driver
  • Live-line working, the maintenance of electrical equipment, often operating at high voltage, while the equipment is energised
  • Single-line working, using one train track out of two

Famous quotes containing the word working:

    “When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.”
    —Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)

    “The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.”
    —George Marshall (1880–1959)