Th purpose of thi tudy is to analyse whether thernEthiopian Curriculum of primary school is work-oriented orrnnot. To achiev this aim, textbook con n analysis andrnques ionnaires have been used as data collection instruments.rnFour steps have been followed in analysing he contentrnof the textbooks. The fir t step is concerned with text bookrnselection. The second step involves defining the researchrnproblems in terms of categories in relation to the thesisrnbasic questions. The third step deals with identifying therntechnique of measurement or unit of content. The last steprnidentifies the system of enumeration. Then. data obtainedrnfrom text b01k analysi and questionnairp are in erpreted andrnsummarized.rnThe rpslll s of thp ana 1 ys i S sh090 tat hi rty-sevenrnpercpn of the contents are wnrk-referpn ed . Of these wo rkrpfprpncernp~ragraphs, hirty-thr e perren are plue-collarrnrefer nced and four perrent are whi te-co llar-90nrk-referenced.rnThe qUE''':; n find ou he