 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...can be made happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity. RUSKIN. There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...called productive, the latter unproductive, labour. ADAM SMITH. A man should inure himself to voluntary labour, and should not give up to indulgence and... | |
 | University examiner - 1878 - 92 pages
...NF, 77—79- OF, 3—9. 2. — There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject on which it is bestowed, there is another which has no such effect. Thus the labour of a menial servant adds to the value of nothing. The first is productive, the second... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...be made happy ; and the two cannot be separated with impunity. RUSKIN. There is one sort of labour tifiable designs; a guilt all men who are obnoxious...from precipitation or indolence, or from a mixture of ADAM SMITH. A man should inure himself to voluntary laImur, and should not give up to indulgence and... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Biography - 1880 - 412 pages
...an economist, we extract his position at some length. He says, page 253: "There is one sort of labor which adds to the value of the subject upon which...may be called productive, the latter, unproductive, labor. Thus, the labor of a manufacturer adds generally to the value of the materials which he works... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Biography - 1880 - 412 pages
...an economist, we extract his position at some length. He says, page 253: "There is one sort of labor which adds to the value of the subject upon which...which has no such effect. The former, as it produces u value, may be called productive, the latter, unproductive, labor. Thus, the labor of a manufacturer... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - Capital - 1882 - 334 pages
...destined for the maintenance of productive hands, tends to increase the number of those hands whose labor adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed. It tends therefore to increase the exchangeable value 1 This statement from the " Nation," of May 13,... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - Social history - 1886 - 510 pages
...labor. Turn to Wealth of Nations (Vol. II, p. 12), and you will there read. There is one sort of labor which adds to the value of the subject upon which...may be called productive, the latter unproductive labor. Thus the labor of the manufacturer adds generally to the value of the materials which he works... | |
 | Archibald Weir - Europe - 1886 - 644 pages
...destined for the maintenance of productive hands, tends to increase the number of those hands whose labour adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed. It tends, therefore, to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour... | |
 | William Burgess - Alcoholism - 1887 - 320 pages
...positively destructive both directly and indirectly. To quote Adam Smith once more, productive labor is that which " adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed." Reverse this and we have destructive labor defined, viz. : that which destroys the value of the subject,... | |
 | Robert Zuckerkandl - Economics - 1889 - 402 pages
...productive hands" lautet eine berühmte Stelle „tends to increase the number of those hands whose labour adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed." Es tritt immer die Ansicht zu Tage, dafs bei der Produktion die Arbeit allein Tauschwerte schafft und... | |
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THERE IS ONE SORT of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. 
