... . Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 John Stuart Mill William Stanley Jevons social and economic value of unpaid domestic work productive/unproductive labor distinction conceptions of economics References Barker Drucilla K . 2005 . “ Beyond Women and Economics: Rereading...

...) As a classical economist, Mill wished to maintain the productive- unproductive labor distinction while at the same time relaxing its re- strictive policy implications. His productive-indirectly modification of the doctrine was aimed at removing the stigma attached originally by Smith to “unproductive...

... of taxes and so-called users’ 2. E. K. Hunt, ‘The categories of productive and unproductive labor in Marxist eco- nomic theory,’ Science cind Society 43.3 (Fall 1979): 303-25. 3. K. Marx, Cupitul: (1 critique of political economy (Moscow. 1954). I, 477. This par- ticular passage is taken...

... is replete with these productive and unproductive distinctions, even if they come in a variety of guises. Unproductive Labor in Political Economy: The History of an Idea picks up where Perrotta left off in his earlier study of the sub- ject, Consumption as an Investment I. The Fear of Goods from Hesiod...

... to support. The conceptual structure of this normative theory pivots around the distinction between productive and unproductive labor. This dis- tinction is rooted solidly in Smith’s labor theory of value and in the associated concept of ”division of labor,” the basic technical organiz...

.... 7. The distinction between productive and unproductive consumption, intimately con- nected to the distinction between productive and unproductive labor, seems to be one of the 254 History of Political Economy 20:2 (I988) war and prayer after 1750, so consumption dethroned production...

... is paid from last year’s stock but does not produce anything that could add to next year’s stock. Thus, farm laborers or those who work in a pin factory are productive laborers, but opera singers and teachers are unproductive laborers. The distinction is crucial for Smith because according to his...

... with a profit, in the improved value of the subject upon which his labour is bestowed. But the maintenance of a menial servant never is restored [ 1976, 3301. Smith further claims, in a distinction which became the center of enor- mous controversy over the years, that productive labor...

... of earthly space itself. Fourthly, Hitler placed the classical distinction between productive and unproductive activity at the very center of his Weltanschauung. The hagiography of labor and the demonology of laziness were no mere propaganda points but fundamental axioms that set the whole system...

..., Smith maintained something of the eighteenth-century physicalist con- ception of production. He continued to apply the distinction between “productive” and “unproductive’’ labor, insisting that unless the exer- cise of labor resulted in the change-of some physical commodity (if, in other words...

... him to avoid the dilemma that (Brewer ar- gues) faced Smith regarding luxuryand productive and unproductive labor. Finally, this article details the distinctive, Scottish school contri- bution that McCulloch made to classical economics in the area of luxury consumption and work motivation. 1...

... available. More people might be 17. Smith defines productive and unproductive labor in chapter III of book II. As Walter Eltis (1975, 434) shows, Smith’s distinction is not uniform but he gives three different criteria for productive labor: “(i) whether employment produces a profit, (ii) whether...

... “sterile” labor that placed manufacturing labor in the latter category would in WN IV.ix become the axis of his critique of the “agricultural system”; but Smith in fact adopted and repurposed that distinction into one between “productive” and “unproductive” labor, alluded to in the third paragraph...

... which had always before opresesd them” (ibid., V.iii.89, p. 944). Dependency and Unproductive Labor Smith left no doubt that the question of dependency was related to his theory of productive and unproductive labor. Smith’s contemporaries com- monly denounced particular...

...) labor, inequality of wealth, private property, “unproductive” labor, and the role of government, among others. As well, the Puritan hypothesis is shown to explain some of Raymond’s more tortured arguments, which otherwise remain inexplicable and are normally ignored by interpreters (e.g., his...

... consumers. (463) The determination of the ideal proportion of productive to unproductive laborers in an economy would, in his view, depend on a number of fac- tors, including the consumption behavior of the productive parts of society, which determine the need for the extra demand stimulus...

... to “an effectual and unchecked demand for all that is produced” (2:263). Smith ([1776] 1976, 332) had argued that the employment of unpro- ductive laborers was a brake on production, for “as a smaller or a greater proportion of [a nation’s produce] is in any one year employed in main- taining unproductive...

... York, 1964) p. 400. Cited below as Principles. 4. Productive labor for Malthus is that labor involved in the production of (material) goods for sale with the objective of yielding profit, as distinct from unproductive or service labor, which is employed as a form of consumption. Cf...

.... 15. The footnotes covered such matters as the distinction between productive and unproductive labour (p. 47), the measure of value (p. 125), the reasons for the rise in the price of corn between 1793 and 1813 (p. 164), the determinants of the rate of profits (p. 291), the meaning...

... of wages, by the operation of some cause independent of the price of labor, or of its productive power. This doctrine was long considered one of the fundamental axioms of Political Econ- omy, and a test of economic orthodoxy. (Wood 1890-91, 437-38; my italics) The wage-fund theory claims...