Principles of Political Economy · John Stuart Mill
LABOR.
6. Distinguish between direct and indirect labor, and give an illustration of the distinction. 7. Apply the distinction between productive and unproductive labor, and productive and unproductive consumption, respectively, to each of the following persons: a tailor, an architect, an annuitant, a sailor, and a brick-layer. 8. Is an actor to be classed as a productive laborer? The inventor of a machine? A confectioner? 9. In which of the two classes of laborers, productive and unproductive, would you place the following? (1.) The officers of our Government. (2.) The maker of an organ. (3.) An organist. (4.) A schoolmaster. (5.) An artist. (6.) He who makes an article for which there is no use. 10. Classify as productive or unproductive the following laborers: a clergyman, musical-instrument maker, actor, soldier, and lace-maker.
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