7 sentences with “productivity”

The empire as a whole enjoyed levels of commercial and agricultural productivity not seen again until the 17th century.

The state made great efforts to increase both agricultural productivity and the amount of cultivated land, especially in Mesopotamia.

Owen believed that productivity was linked to happiness, and his initial experiments were successful, with the New Lanark textile factory making steady profits.

However, it is often counterproductive to force more tasks into our days and nights. People who get a good night's sleep, scholars argue, are amply rewarded by increased productivity, creativity and concentration.

Although peasants resented having to pay for access to the mills (which were generally controlled by landowners, often nobles or the Church), the huge increase in productivity meant that much more food was generally available.

More important than their economic productivity, at least from the perspective of the history of ideas, is that monasteries became major centres of learning, especially in Western Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

In historical retrospect, however, slavery undermined both Roman productivity and the pace of innovation in Roman society. There was simply no need to look for new and better ways of doing things in the form of technological progress or social innovations because slave labour was always available.