The secret of industrial production is "the art of getting others to work for us." In this
case for Scribe, for a scribe, for a maker of literature, this involved the
"transfer of the principle of the division of labor," effectively a
transfer of identity itself, from the artisanal or material realms of
occupations like "tailors, cabinentmakers" and so on, over to the
immaterial or imaginative tasks of creating literature, into the realm of the
"dramatic artist." Scribe goes on to create an assembly line of
entertainment, a Fordist model of industrial production but this time applied
to drama, to abstracted entertainment.
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