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A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text, subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself. No mere work of dry economics, Marx's great work depicts the unfolding of industrial capitalism as a tragic drama - with a message which has lost none of its relevance today. This is the only abridged edition to take account of the whole of Capital. It offers virtually all of Volume 1, which Marx himself published in 1867, excerpts from a new translation of `The Result of the Immediate Process of Production', and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3, which Engels published in 1895.

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• Introduction(p. xiii)
• Note on the Text(p. xxviii)
• Select Bibliography(p. xxix)
• A Chronology of Karl Marx(p. xxxi)
• From Volume One
• Preface to the First German Edition(p. 3)
• Afterword to the Second German Edition(p. 7)
• Part I Commodities and Money
• Chapter 1 Commodities(p. 13)
• Section 1 The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (the Substance of Value and the Magnitude of Value)(p. 13)
• Section 2 The Two-Fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities(p. 18)
• Section 3 The Form of Value or Exchange-Value(p. 22)
• Section 4 The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof(p. 42)
• Chapter 2 Exchange(p. 51)
• Chapter 3 Money, or the Circulation of Commodities(p. 58)
• Section 1 The Measure of Values(p. 58)
• Section 2 The Medium of Circulation(p. 64)
• Section 3 Money(p. 84)
• Part II The Transformation of Money into Capital
• Chapter 4 The General Formula for Capital(p. 93)
• Chapter 5 Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital(p. 101)
• Chapter 6 The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power(p. 108)
• Part III The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value
• Chapter 7 The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value(p. 115)
• Section 1 The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values(p. 115)
• Section 2 The Production of Surplus-Value(p. 120)
• Chapter 8 Constant Capital and Variable Capital(p. 132)
• Chapter 9 The Rate of Surplus-Value(p. 142)
• Section 1 The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power(p. 142)
• Chapter 10 The Working-Day(p. 148)
• Section 1 The Limits of the Working-Day(p. 148)
• Section 2 The Greed for Surplus-Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard(p. 151)
• Section 3 Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation(p. 154)
• Section 4 Day and Night Work. The Relay System(p. 159)
• Section 5 The Struggle for a Normal Working-Day. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working-Day from the Middle of the 14th to the End of the 17th Century(p. 162)
• Section 6 The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time. The English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864(p. 166)
• Section 7 The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries(p. 179)
• Chapter 11 Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value(p. 183)
• Part IV The Production of Relative Surplus-Value
• Chapter 12 The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value(p. 189)
• Chapter 13 Co-operation(p. 197)
• Chapter 14 Division of Labour and Manufacture(p. 205)
• Section 1 Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture(p. 205)
• Section 2 The Detail Labourer and his Implements(p. 207)
• Section 3 The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture(p. 209)
• Section 4 Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society(p. 216)
• Section 5 The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture(p. 222)
• Chapter 15 Machinery and Modern Industry(p. 229)
• Section 1 The Development of Machinery(p. 229)
• Section 2 The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product(p. 239)
• Section 3 The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman(p. 244)
• Section 4 The Factory(p. 258)
• Section 5 The Strife between Workman and Machine(p. 263)
• Section 6 The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery(p. 269)
• Section 7 Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade(p. 273)
• Section 8 Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry(p. 276)
• Section 9 The Factory Acts. Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the Same. Their General Extension in England(p. 289)
• Section 10 Modern Industry and Agriculture(p. 296)
• Part V The Production of Absolute and of Relative Surplus-Value
• Chapter 16 Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value(p. 299)
• Chapter 17 Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value(p. 303)
• I Length of the Working-Day and Intensity of Labour Constant. Productiveness of Labour Variable(p. 304)
• II Working-Day Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. Intensity of Labour Variable(p. 305)
• Part VI Wages
• Chapter 19 The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour-Power into Wages(p. 309)
• Part VII The Accumulation of Capital
• Chapter 23 Simple Reproduction(p. 317)
• Chapter 24 Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital(p. 324)
• Section 1 Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale. Transition of the Laws of Property that Characterise Production of Commodities into Laws of Capitalist Appropriation(p. 324)
• Section 3 Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory(p. 331)
• Section 5 The So-Called Labour-Fund(p. 334)
• Chapter 25 The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation(p. 337)
• Section 1 The Increased Demand for Labour-Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same(p. 337)
• Section 2 Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration that Accompanies it(p. 343)
• Section 3 Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus-Population or Industrial Reserve Army(p. 350)
• Section 4 Different Forms of the Relative Surplus-Population. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation(p. 358)
• Part VIII The So-Called Primitive Accumulation
• Chapter 26 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation(p. 363)
• Chapter 27 Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land(p. 366)
• Chapter 28 Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament(p. 372)
• Chapter 31 Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist(p. 375)
• Chapter 32 Historical Tendency of Capitalistic Accumulation(p. 378)
• From 'Results of the Immediate Process of Production'(p. 383)
• From Volume Three
• Chapter 9 Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit) and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices of Production(p. 401)
• Chapter 13 The Law as Such(p. 419)
• Chapter 14 Counteracting Influences(p. 438)
• I Increasing Intensity of Exploitation(p. 438)
• II Depression of Wages below the Value of Labour-Power(p. 441)
• III Cheapening of Elements of Constant Capital(p. 441)
• IV Relative Over-Population(p. 442)
• V Foreign Trade(p. 443)
• VI The Increase of Stock Capital(p. 445)
• Chapter 15 Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law(p. 447)
• I General(p. 447)
• II Conflict between Expansion of Production and Production of Surplus-Value(p. 452)
• III Excess Capital and Excess Population(p. 456)
• Chapter 42 Genesis of Capitalist Ground-Rent(p. 458)
• II Labour Rent(p. 458)
• III Rent in Kind(p. 462)
• Chapter 43 The Trinity Formula(p. 465)
• Marx's Selected Footnotes(p. 483)
• Explanatory Notes(p. 491)
• Subject Index(p. 495)
• Name Index(p. 497)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Karl Heinrich Marx, one of the fathers of communism, was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. He was educated at a variety of German colleges, including the University of Jena.

He was an editor of socialist periodicals and a key figure in the Working Man's Association. Marx co-wrote his best-known work, "The Communist Manifesto" (1848), with his friend, Friedrich Engels. Marx's most important work, however, may be "Das Kapital" (1867), an analysis of the economics of capitalism.

He died on March 14, 1883 in London, England.

(Bowker Author Biography)