1/2. Interesting. But need to be careful not to mythologise 'light work'. It was notorious for being recommended by doctors but impossible to get in practice across much of the twentieth century. And some large categories of workers never 'qualified' for it in the first place

2/2 Varrier-Jones founded Papworth Industries precisely because a most common impairment, tuberculosis, excluded workers from light roles. And women were never included in this moral economy of long service and light work. Nor those with childhood impairments