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 example, in German publishers paid authors by the number of pages they produced rather than by the sales of the books.
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
