Works and Days is the Hesiod poem linking Pandora's creation directly to Prometheus's theft of fire.
The poem presents Zeus's response to Prometheus's deception and fire theft as a chain of punishments. Pandora is created and sent to Epimetheus, while the theft explains why Zeus's attitude toward humanity has become hostile. The episode appears within a wider poem about justice, work, farming, and the difficult conditions of mortal life.
Hesiod's Theogony also refers to Pandora, but Works and Days supplies the fuller account most readers recognize. It describes the making of the woman, the gifts given by the gods, her arrival among humans, and the opening of the container. This is why Works and Days is usually cited as the principal source for the Pandora's box story.
The title can be misleading to modern readers because the poem is not only a manual about labor. Its mythological stories support arguments about why humans must work and why Zeus's order should be respected. Pandora functions as part of that moral and cosmic explanation rather than as an isolated adventure.