Regarding your first point, authors according to Biernacki, were paid by the page.
Goethe was upset that he was paid identically with the creator of some trash. The
only way to win an economic advantage was to produce more pages per hour. Perhaps,
this can lead to the creation of Internet com
Gil writes:
> But Michael, "number of pages produced" is a measure of labor
> performed, not labor power.
I was going to say something similar, but held off, since Michael doesn't seem to like
discussions of Marxian value theory. Note that "number of pages produced" isn't a very
good measure
But Michael, "number of pages produced" is a measure of labor performed,
not labor power. And in Marxian terms, "the value produced by labor" is to
some extent redundant, since to Marx labor *is* the substance of value,
no? It would be more accurate to say on the basis of your example that the
Bri
I don't know about Dickens, but yes, even Marx complained about having
to make his book long for the damn German publisher.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:10:13AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
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> that would explain the verbose style of German authors?
>
> but wasn't Dickens paid by the word?
>
> Jim D
>in German[y] publishers paid authors by the number
of pages they produced rather than by the sales of the books.<
that would explain the verbose style of German authors?
but wasn't Dickens paid by the word?
Jim D.
In a way, the violinists' demands are not as strange as they seem.
Richard Biernacki has argued that the Germans and the British had a
different conception of labor -- the Germans historically measured labor
by something like Marx's labor power; the British, by the value produced
by labor. For exa
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JD wrote:
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain
(paraphrased).
Mark Twain was making a perceptive comment on contemporary
American standards of musical performance, not a philistine
denegr
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> JD wrote:
> "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain
> (paraphrased).
>
> Mark Twain was making a perceptive comment on contemporary
> American standards of musical performa
JD wrote:
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain (paraphrased).
Mark Twain was making a perceptive comment on contemporary
American standards of musical performance, not a philistine
denegration of one of the greatest composers ever.
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the
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To be honest, this is just more evidence of German
overmanning. Does an orchestra really need two
trombone players, a timpanist and an oboist, each of
> > From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:47 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > We're being fiddled, say violinists
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> > AP, Berlin
> > W
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> We're being fiddled, say violinists
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> AP, Berlin
> Wednesday March 24, 2004
> The Guardian
>
> Violinists at a German orchestra are suing for a pay rise on
&g
Isn't this being published a week too early?
We're being fiddled, say violinists
AP, Berlin
Wednesday March 24, 2004
The Guardian
Violinists at a German orchestra are suing for a pay rise on the grounds
that they play many more notes per concert than their musical colleagues
- a litigation that t
We're being fiddled, say violinists
AP, Berlin
Wednesday March 24, 2004
The Guardian
Violinists at a German orchestra are suing for a pay rise on the grounds
that they play many more notes per concert than their musical colleagues
- a litigation that the orchestra's director yesterday called "abs
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