Capital [electronic resource] : a critique of political economy. Vol. I, Book one, The process of production of capital / Karl Marx ; translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling ; edited by Frederick Engels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Contributor:

Aveling, Edward B., 1849-1898.

Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895.

Moore, Samuel.

ebrary, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital.

Economics.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1133 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Electric Book Co., c2001.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

PREFACES

Preface to the English Edition 14

Preface to the First German Edition 20

Afterword to the Second German Edition 26

Preface to the French Edition 38

Afterword to the French Edition 39

Preface to the Third German Edition 40

Preface to the Fourth German Edition 44

CHAPTER I.-Commodities

Section 1.-The Two Factors of a Commodity 53

Section 2.-The Two-fold Character of the Labour Embodied In Commodities 62

Section 3.-The Form of Value or Exchange-Value 70

A. Elementary or Accidental Form of Value 71

1. The Two Poles of the Expression of Value 71

2. The Relative Form of Value 73

a. The Nature and Import of this Form 73

b. Quantitative Determination of Relative Value 78

3. The Equivalent Form of Value 81

4. The Elementary Form of Value Considered as a Whole 88

B. Total or Expanded Form of Value 91

1. The Expanded Relative Form of Value 91

2. The Particular Equivalent Form 93

3. Defects of the Total or Expanded Form of Value 93

C. The General Form of Value 95

1. The Altered Character of the Form of Value 95

2. The Interdependent Development of the Relative Formof Value, and of the Equivalent Form 98

3. Transition from the General Form to Money-Form 100

D. The Money-Form 101

Section 4.-The Fetishism of Commodities and their Secret 102

CHAPTER II.-Exchange

CHAPTER III.-Money, or the Circulation of Commodities

Section 1.-The Measure of Values 136

Section 2.-The Medium of Circulation 150

a. The Metamorphosis of Commodities 150

b. The Currency of Money 165

c. Coin and Symbols of Value 180

Section 3.-Money 187

a. Hoarding 188

b. Means of Payment 194

c. Universal Money 205

CHAPTER IV.-The General Formula for Capital

CHAPTER V.-Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital.

CHAPTER VI.-The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power

CHAPTER VII.-The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value

Section 1.-The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values 256

Section 2.-The Production of Surplus-Value 268

CHAPTER VIII.-Constant Capital and Variable Capital

CHAPTER IX.-The Rate of Surplus-Value

Section 1.-The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power 306

Section 2.-The Representation of the Components of Value 318

Section 3.-Senior's "Last Hour" 322

Section 4.-Surplus-Produce 331

CHAPTER X.-The Working-Day

Section 1.-The Limits of the Working-Day 333

Section 2. - The Greed for Surplus-Labour, Manufacturer and Boyard

Section 3.-Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation

Section 4.-Day and Night Work. The Relay System 369

Section 5.-The Struggle for a Normal Working-Day from 14th to 17th Century 380

Section 6.-The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. English Factory Acts 400

Section 7.-The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries 427

CHAPTER XI.-Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value

CHAPTER XII.-The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value

CHAPTER XIII.-Co-operation

CHAPTER XIV.-Division of Labour and Manufacture

Section 1.-Two-fold Origin of Manufacture 482

Section 2.-The Detail Labourer and his Implements 486

Section 3.-The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture 490

Section 4.-Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society 503

Section 5.-The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture 516

CHAPTER XV.-Machinery And Modern Industry

Section 1.-The Development of Machinery 531

Section 2.-The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product 553

Section 3.-The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman 565.

a. The Employment of Women and Children 565

b. Prolongation of the Working-Day 577

c. Intensification of Labour 586

Section 4.-The Factory 600

Section 5.-The Strife Between Workman and Machine 614

Section 6.-The Theory of Compensation of Workpeople Displaced by Machinery 629

Section 7.-Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System 642

Section 8.-Revolution Effected in Manufacture by Modern Industry 660

a. Overthrow of Co-operation Based on Handicraft and on the Division of Labour 660

b. Reaction of the Factory System on Manufacture and Domestic Industries 662

c. Modern Manufacture 664

d. Modern Domestic Industry 668

e. Passage of Modern Manufacture Into. Modern Mechanical Industry 674

Section 9.-The Factory Acts. Sanitary and Educational Clauses of, 689

Section 10.-Modern Industry and Agriculture 724

CHAPTER XVI.-Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value

CHAPTER XVII.-Changes in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value

I. Length of the Working-Day and Intensity of Labour Constant. 744

II. Working-Day Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. 750

III. Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant. Length of the Working-Day Variable 752

IV. Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, And Intensity of Labour 755

(1.) Diminishing Productiveness of Labour with Working-Day 755

(2.) Increasing Intensity and Productiveness of Labour with Shortening of the Working-Day 758

CHAPTER XVIII.-Various formulæ for the Rate of Surplus-Value

CHAPTER XIX.-The Transformation of the Value of Labour-Power into Wages

CHAPTER XX.-Time-Wages

CHAPTER XXI.-Piece-Wages

CHAPTER XXII.-National Differences of Wages

CHAPTER XXIII.-Simple Reproduction

CHAPTER XXIV.-Conversion Of Surplus-Value Into Capital.

Section 1.-Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale. 830

Section 2.-Erroneous Conception of Reproduction on a Progressively Increasing Scale 843

Section 3.-Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory 848

Section 4.- Growing Difference in Amount Between Capital Employed and Capital Consumed. 859

Section 5.-The So-Called Labour-Fund 873

CHAPTER XXV.-The General Law Of Capitalist Accumulation

Section 1.-The Increased Demand for Labour-Power 878

Section 2.-Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital with Concentration 892

Section 3.-Progressive Production of Industrial Reserve Army 902

Section 4.- The General Law of Capitalistic Accumulation 919

Section 5.-Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation 930

a. England from 1846-1866 930

b. The Badly Paid Strata of the British Industrial Class 938

c. The Nomad Population 951

d. Effect of Crises on the Best Paid Part of the Working- Class 957

e. The British Agricultural Proletariat 964

f. Ireland 999

CHAPTER XXVI.-The Secret of Primitive Accumulation

CHAPTER XXVII.-Expropriation of the Agricultural population from the Land

CHAPTER XXVIII.-Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated

CHAPTER XXIX.-Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer

CHAPTER XXX.-Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home-Market for Industrial Capital

CHAPTER XXXI.-Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist

CHAPTER XXXII.-Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation

CHAPTER XXXIII.-The Modern Theory of Colonisation

INDEX OF AUTHORITIES

Absolute surplus value

definition of 452

production of 382

production of 445

production of 730

distinction between absolute and relative surplus-value 731

Abstraction.

significance of abstraction in the analysis of economic forms 34

examples of 228

examples of 256

examples of 728

examples of 810

examples of 832

Abstract labour

58

60

64

70

73

93

106

16

128

158

287

Accessories

262

812

866

894

Accumulation of capital

definition of 830

definition of 832

definition of 840

definition of 847

definition of 881

definition of 884

definition of 887

definition of 891

definition of 895

definition of 925

definition of 944

necessary conditions, sources and factors of 810

necessary conditions, sources and factors of 832

necessary conditions, sources and factors of 835

necessary conditions, sources and factors of 856

necessary conditions, sources and factors of 863

necessary conditions, sources and factors of 866

necessary conditions, sources and factors of 892

necessary conditions, sources and factors of 900

results and consequences of585 119

results and consequences of585 901

results and consequences of585 907

results and consequences of585 910

results and consequences of585 926

in agriculture 865

and condition of the working-class 863

and condition of the working-class 879

and condition of the working-class 887

and condition of the working-class 904

and condition of the working-class 912

and condition of the working-class 925

and condition of the working-class 944

and laws of commodity production 840

historical tendency of 1090

Acts for enclosures of commons 1036

Adulteration of means of subsistence

252

358

859

Africa 1075

Agricultural labourer

conditions of life and labour of 363

conditions of life and labour of 394

conditions of life and labour of 724.

conditions of life and labour of 798.

Notes:

Cover title : Capital, Volume I.

ISBN:

9781843270973

1-281-24078-8

1-4619-1172-9

9786611240783

OCLC:

70758736