 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 800 pages
...or to which it tempts, or whereby it is nourished."— BISHOP TAYLOR. " There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...called productive, the latter unproductive, labour. — SMITH, Wealth of Nations. FERVOUR. ARDOUR. FERVOUR (Lat. fervorem, vwlen: heat, vehemence jfei'vcrgj... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Finance - 1906 - 698 pages
...ch. 3) Smith had defined productive and unproductive labor as follows: " 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... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Finance - 1906 - 700 pages
...ch. 3) Smith had defined productive and unproductive labor as follows : "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... | |
 | Fred Manville Taylor - Economics - 1907 - 242 pages
...shall give Smith's opinions in his own words. "There is one sort of labor," says he, "which adds tc the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed...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... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1909 - 834 pages
...and in destroying the influence of Christian ministers — remarks, that "there is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...called productive ; the latter, unproductive labour." It may be some consolation to Christian ministers, that while under the character of unproductive labourers,... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1909 - 798 pages
...and in destroying the influence of christian ministers — remarks, that "there is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...called productive ; the latter, unproductive labour." It may be some consolation to christian ministers, that while under the character of unproductive labourers,... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 328 pages
...to the welfare of the society, and each with a multitude of varieties. " There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...may be called productive, the latter unproductive." Typical of the former is the labour of the manufacturer which fixes and realises itself in some vendible... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 324 pages
...to the welfare of the society, and each with a multitude of varieties. " There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces_a_ value, may be called productive, the latter unproductive." Typical of the former is the... | |
 | John Bacon Leeds - Cost and standard of living - 1917 - 262 pages
...an interesting distinction in kinds of labor as judged by the products. "There is one sort of labor which adds to the value of the subject upon which...may be called productive, the latter, unproductive labor." "The labor of a menial servant5 adds to the value of nothing." "The maintenance of a menial... | |
 | John Baker Opdycke - English language - 1917 - 370 pages
...made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy. — Ruskin. There is one sort of labor which adds to the value of the subject upon which...may be called productive, the latter unproductive, labor. — Smith. The education which is recommended consists in bringing children up to labor with... | |
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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. 
