Another distinction to be made is that between productive and unproductive labor.

Is the labour embodied in luxury goods productive or unproductive labour?

Moreover it imposes limits upon the proportion of labour-power which can safely be devoted to unproductive labour.

It was generally applied to all who where considered to have worked in sections that fell under the category of "unproductive labor".

Yet both Moseley's calculations and his definition of unproductive labor have been criticised by other Marxists.

The model assumes that a developing economy has a surplus of unproductive labor in the agricultural sector.

In Marxian social accounting, one theoretical controversy concerns the treatment of the wages of so-called productive and unproductive labour.

In neoclassical economics, the distinction between productive and unproductive labour was however rejected as being largely arbitrary and irrelevant.

In national accounts and social accounting theory the concepts of productive and unproductive labour do survive to some extent.

The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.