MacVane defined productive labour as labour directed toward producing or exchanging wealth and classified all other labour as non-productive.

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What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960 — Classical political economy: producers as creators of material wealth

‘We shall, therefore, understand Productive labor to mean labor whose immediate object is the production or exchange of wealth. All other labor we shall regard as Non-productive’

https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2404355#unit-4-p5

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