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Labor is the production of goods and services, work is when you sell your labor for a wage or salary. If you've ever heard the phrase "the means of production", it's referring to the idea of who gets the product of the labor - the workers, or someone/something else (e.g. a company). It's what enabled capitalism to coerce and exploit workers, preventing them from laboring on what they want to. Leftist ideologies advocate to help resolve this by having the workers collectively own the fruits of their labor, such as within a co-operative where the workers all collectively own the organization. This comment elsewhere in the thread also clarifies the distinction.