Capital : a new abridgement. / txt
Karl Marx.
- xxxii, 499 p. 20 cm. book
Include Index.
Contents : Introduction xiii -- Note on the Text xxviii -- Select Bibliography xxix -- A Chronology of Karl Marx xxxi -- From Volume One -- Preface to the First German Edition 3 -- Afterword to the Second German Edition 7 -- Part. I. Commodities and Money -- Chapter 1. Commodities 13 -- Section 1. The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (the Substance of Value and the Magnitude of Value) 13 -- Section 2. The Two-Fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities 18 -- Section 3. The Form of Value or Exchange Value -- Section 4. The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof 42 -- Chapter 2. Exchange 51 -- Chapter 3. Money, or the Circulation of Commodities 58 -- Section 1. The Measure of Values 58 -- Section 2. The Medium of Circulation 64 -- Section 3. Money 84 -- Part II. The Transformation of Money into Capital -- Chapter 4. The General Formula for Capital 93 -- Chapter 5. Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital 101 -- Chapter 6. The Buying and Selling of Labour Power 108 -- Part III. The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value -- Chapter 7. The Labour Process and the Process of Producing Surplus Value 115 -- Section 1. The Labour Process or the Production of Use Values 115 -- Section 2. The Production of Surplus Value 120 -- Chapter 8. Constant Capital and Variable Capital 132 -- Chapter 9. The Rate of Surplus Value 142 -- Section 1. The Degree of Exploitation of Labour Power 142 -- Chapter 10. The Working Day 148 -- Section 1. The Limits of the Working Day 148 -- Section 2. The Greed for Surplus Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard 151 -- Section 3. Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation 154 -- Section 4. Day and Night Work. The Relay System 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 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 166 -- Section 7. The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries 179 -- Chapter 11. Rate and Mass of Surplus Value 183 -- Part IV. The Production of Relative Surplus Value -- Chapter 12. The Concept of Relative Surplus Value 189 -- Chapter 13. Co-operation 197 -- Chapter 14. Division of Labour and Manufacture 205 -- Section 1. Two Fold Origin of Manufacture 205 -- Section 12. The Detail Labourer and his Implements 207 -- Section 3. The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture 209 -- Section 4. Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society 216 -- Section 5. The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture 222 -- Chapter 15. Machinery and Modern Industry 229 -- Section 1. The Development of Machinery 229 -- Section 2. The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product 239 -- Section 3. The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman 244 -- Section 4. The Factory 258 -- Section 5. The Strife between Workman and Machine 263 -- Section 6. The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery 269 -- Section 7. Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade 273 -- Section 8. Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry 276 -- Section 9. The Factory Acts. Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the Same. Their General Extension in England 289 -- Section 10. Modern Industry and Agriculture 296 -- Part V. The Production of Absolute and of Relative Surplus Value -- Chapter 16. Absolute and Relative Surplus Value 299 -- Chapter 17. Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus Value 303 -- I. Length of the Working-Day and Intensity of Labour Constant. Productiveness of Labour Variable 304 -- II. Working-Day Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. Intensity of Labour Variable 305 -- Part IV. Wages -- Chapter 19. The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour Power into Wages 309 -- Part. VII. The Accumulation of Capital -- Chapter 23. Simple Reproduction 317 -- Chapter 24. Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital 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 324 -- Section 3. Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory 331 -- Section 5. The So Called Labour Fund 334 -- Chapter 25. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation 337 -- Section 1. The Increased Demand for Labour Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same 337 -- Section 2. Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration that Accompanies it 343 -- Section 3. Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army 350 -- Section 4. Different Forms of the Relative Surplus-Population. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation 358 -- Part VII. The So Called Primitive Accumulation -- Chapter 26. The Secret of Primitive Accumulation 363 -- Chapter 27. Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land 366 -- Chapter 28. Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament 372 -- Chapter 31. Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist 375 -- Chapter 32. Historical Tendency of Capitalistic Accumulation 378 -- From Results of the Immediate Process of Production 383 -- From Volume Three -- Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit) and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices of Production 401 -- Chapter 13. The Law as Such 419 -- Chapter 14. Counteracting Influences 438 -- I. Increasing Intensity of Exploitation 438 -- II. Depression of Wages below the Value of Labour Power 441 -- III. Cheapening of Elements of Constant Capital 441 -- IV. Relative Over Population 442 -- V. Foreign Trade 443 -- VI. The Increase of Stock Capital 445 -- Chapter 15. Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law 447 -- I. General -- II. Conflict between Expansion of Production and Production of Surplus Value 452 -- III. Excess Capital and Excess Population 456 -- Chapter 42. Genesis of Capitalist Ground Rent 458 -- II. Labour Rent 458 -- III. Rent in Kind 462 -- Chapter 43. The Trinity Formula 465 -- Marx's Selected Footnotes 483 -- Explanatory Notes 491 -- Subject Index 495 -- Name Index 497 --
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. Millions of readers have treated Capital as a sacred text, subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the Bible itself. No mere text 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 --