 | Patrick Murray - Anthologies - 1997 - 510 pages
...OF THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL, OR OF PRODUCTIVE AND UNPRODUCTIVE LABOUR 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.The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.... | |
 | Cormac Ó Gráda - Business & Economics - 1997 - 266 pages
...industry 1921-62'. in idem (ed.). Land Use in Northern Ireland (London. 1963), 45-58. The service sector The labour of a manufacturer adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon . . . The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing. (Adam Smith. Wealth... | |
 | Marilyn Waring - Social Science - 1999 - 368 pages
...distribution could be productive but defined productive labour as follows: There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...the labour of a manufacturer adds, generally to the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his master's profit. The labour... | |
 | John Ralston Saul - Philosophy - 1999 - 212 pages
...course, "managing" is neither "doing" nor "making." As Adam Smith put it: "There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...there is another which has no such effect." The former is "productive," the latter "unproductive" labour. Smith clearly places management in the unproductive... | |
 | Walter A. Weisskopf - Medical - 1955 - 276 pages
...between productive and unproductive labour in Book II, chapter iii. Labour is productive if it . . . adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed, . . . [if] it realizes itself in some particular subject or vendible commodity, which lasts for some... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood, Steven Kates - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 328 pages
...substitution for the factor in lixed supply of other factors whose supply is increasable. 123. "Labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed" is "productive"; labor which does not have this effect, however useful it may otherwise be, is "unproductive."... | |
 | Economics - 2000 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood, Steven Kates - Economics - 2000 - 312 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... | |
 | Henry S. Turner - Business & Economics - 2002 - 324 pages
...(316). In book 2, chap. 3 he differentiates between productive and unproductive labor, the former of which "adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed," whereas the latter "has no such effect" (314). Although he goes on to sketch a labor theory of value... | |
 | James C. W. Ahiakpor - Business & Economics - 2003 - 278 pages
...illustrates the difference between productive and unproductive labor thus: There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which...which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a [saleable] value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour. Thus the labour of a manufacturer... | |
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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. 
