Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "field-work".
The surplus prisoners not exchanged shall not be permitted to take up arms again, nor to serve as military police or constabulary force in any fort, garrison or field-work, held by either of the respective parties, nor as guards of prisoners, deposits or stores, nor to discharge any duty usually performed by soldiers, until exchanged under the provisions of this cartel.
As a last resort, I went to Arizona to talk to anthropologists who were actually doing field-work there.
Even though he'd get field-work credit for the archaeology course, he'd still have to retake his other courses.
His father died when Jeremiah was twenty-two, a fairly miserable stretch beginning for him then, tho' he never drank enough to interfere with field-work, something he needed as much as ready access to Ale, still young enough to arise little inconvenienced after a night's strenuous drinking, having led till now the merry Life of a Journeyman Surveyor, errant all through the North country, one Great Land-Holding to another, three-legged Staff cock'd over his shoulder, Circumferentor slung in a Pitman's bag along with dry Stockings and a small wheaten Loaf, spare Needles and Pins, Plummets, Pencils, scrap-paper, and jeweler's Putty for the Compass, tho' Spaces not yet enclos'd would ever make him uneasy, not a promising mental condition for an outdoor job, oblig'd to cross the Fell now and again, a dangerous and frightening place, not only murderers abroad, but Spirits as well, and Spirits not necessarily in human form, no, the worst being, almost in human form, but not quite.
Sometimes Bonnard acted as recorder for Bakkun when administration duties prevented Kai from field-work beside the heavy-world geologist.
Field-work and domestic activities were dovetailed into a strictly daily routine, but their schedule also included rest periods when people gathered in groups to chew the fat and - to judge from the faint sounds of laughter that reached him - generally have a good time.
But it's been pointed out to me by several people whose job it is to keep track of these things that we usually keep married pairs at home flying desk jobs for at least a year, until they feel their relationship is stable enough for the intense stress of field-work.