"productive labor" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to labor that results in a product, such as the labor done by factory workers, builders, and other similar professions. For example: "The factory workers put in long hours of productive labor to ensure the factory met their deadlines."
Her service on the board coincided with that of John Tate, who summed up his views on labor relations as follows: "Labor unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites living off of the productive labor of people who work for a living".
France has a wealthy, diversified, resilient economy and a highly skilled and productive labor force.
This surge has created a cheap, productive labor force for its factories, mines and construction crews.
By causing a loss of productive labor, it also reduces incomes in these countries," said the authors.
Yes, the U.S. economy grew, but too slowly to employ an expanding and increasingly productive labor force.
According to his master plan, surpluses generated by vigorously productive labor in the countryside would support industry and subsidize food in the cities.
Distributive systems are just insofar as they distribute incomes according to the different levels earned or deserved by the individuals in the society for their productive labors, efforts, or contributions.
Properly structured, such a system serves to enhance liberty, since it frees most people from the burdensome and time-consuming business of governing, thereby allowing them to get on with their more productive individual pursuits and, most especially, their productive labors (Mill 1992, 21).
Back in the days when Labor Day represented the start of serious presidential campaigning, candidates would routinely exalt the dignity of work itself, laud the virtues of working people, hail the importance of honoring those whose productive labors generate far-reaching prosperity, and denounce "malefactors of great wealth" and "economic royalists".
Given Hallie's 24-hour history of a non-productive labor and concern for a uterine tract infection, I recommended a caesarian section.
Productive capital does not "enhance" labor productivity (labor's ability to produce economic goods).
