Labor: Physical or mental exertion, especially when difficult or exhausting. Work: A specific task or effort, especially a painful or arduous one. The language we use to describe the place we go and the activities we engage in most days of the week, and most weeks of the year (for wages) can generally be considered not very enticing. Labor, work, effort. Fair enough, the building and maintenance of our nation’s cities, roads and infrastructures; the growing of food, etc. co