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The sociopsychology of work is not sociopsychology applied to the working arena because work can not only be understood as a segment of social life. It requires a reappraisal of the theoretical and methodological framework through the concepts of activity, action, and praxis. In order to achieve this objective, it is not necessary to break from past ideas, but to revisit and revise them. The first section of this paper presents the foundations of the sociopsychology of work we seek to expound upon using other theoretical resources. The second section indicates how and why work is at the foundation of the construction of the subject and social units. Lastly, it discusses the three essential issues of work within this conceptualization: the humanization and subjectivation processes by the experience of boundaries, work as institution and as organization, and the construction of the meaning of work in its links with the Kulturarbeit.