Country work that's also part recreation (8)
I believe the answer is:
pastoral
'country work' is the definition.
'also part recreation' is the wordplay.
'recreation' indicates an anagram.
'also'+'part'='alsopart'
'alsopart' with letters rearranged gives 'PASTORAL'.
'that's' is the link.
(Other definitions for pastoral that I've seen before include "Portraying romanticised country life" , "19's 6th 16" , "of a priest" , "(Poem) of country life" , "Well-known symphony" .)