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It is his spare revenue only, of which productive labourers have seldom a great deal.

The retailer himself is the only productive labourer whom it immediately employs.

The persons whose capitals are employed in any of those four ways are themselves productive labourers.

It is productive labourers who do productive consumption.

It implies that productive consumption is an input necessary to maintain productive labourers.

Lamb continued to show improvement, becoming a productive labourer on Barker's farm and earning the trust of the doctor's family.

Not only his labouring servants, but his labouring cattle, are productive labourers.

If he uses it as a capital, he employs it in the maintenance of productive labourers, who reproduce the value with a profit.

The number of its productive labourers, it is evident, can never be much increased, but in consequence of an increase of capital, or of the funds destined for maintaining them.

When multiplied, therefore, to an unnecessary number, they may in a particular year consume so great a share of this produce, as not to leave a sufficiency for maintaining the productive labourers, who should reproduce it next year.

If he is a foreigner, the number of their productive labourers is necessarily less than if he had been a native by one man only, and the value of their annual produce by the profits of that one man.

The number of useful and productive labourers, it will hereafter appear, is everywhere in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting them to work, and to the particular way in which it is so employed.

The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

It is upon this account that, in the chapter in which I treat of productive and unproductive labour, I have classed artificers, manufacturers, and merchants among the productive labourers, and menial servants among the barren or unproductive.

In proportion as that share of the annual produce which, as soon as it comes either from the ground, or from the hands of the productive labourers, is destined for replacing a capital, increases in any country, what is called the monied interest naturally increases with it.

When, indeed, the carrying trade of any particular country is carried on with the ships and sailors of that country, that part of the capital employed in it which pays the freight is distributed among, and puts into motion, a certain number of productive labourers of that country.

Though the whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country is, no doubt, ultimately destined for supplying the consumption of its inhabitants, and for procuring a revenue to them, yet when it first comes either from the ground, or from the hands of the productive labourers, it naturally divides itself into two parts.

Profits arise "from the surplus product of the productive laborer."

The Communist Party Secretary at the plant, Jiang Mingda, acknowledges that it has been hard work culling out the productive laborers and dispatching the surplus laborers to the so-called subsidiaries.

Survey results released last March showed that as much as $9 billion, the equivalent to one-seventh of Thailand's gross national product, would be lost to the Thai economy by the end of the century as young, productive laborers grow ill and seek medical treatment at government expense.