William Morris pamphlet on this topic:
“Here, you see, are two kinds of work - one good, the other bad; one not far removed from a blessing, a lightening of life; the other a mere curse, a burden to life. What is the difference between them, then? This: one has hope in it, the other has not.”
(WM, ‘Useful Work vs Useless Toil’:
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010841183)