A reader's guide to Marx's Capital / Joseph Choonara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choonara, Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marxian economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2019]

Summary:

Marx's groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with Marx's masterpiece, Capital.

Contents:

Intro

Copyright

Contents

Preface

A note for reading groups

Introduction

The production of Capital

Marx's method

1 The commodity

1. The two factors of the commodity

2. The dual character of the labour embodied in the commodities

3. The value-form or exchange-value

a. The simple, isolated or accidental form of value

b. The total or expanded form of value

c. The general form of value

d. The money form

4. The fetishism of the commodity and the secret thereof

2 The process of exchange

3 Money, or the circulation of commodities

1. The measure of value

2. The means of circulation

a. The metamorphosis of commodities

b. The circulation of money

c. Coin. The symbol of value

3. Money

a. Hoarding

b. Means of payment

c. World money

4 The general formula of capital

5 Contradictions in the general formula

6 The sale and purchase of labour-power

7 The labour process and the valorisation process

1. The labour process

2. The valorisation process

8 Constant capital and variable capital

9 The rate of surplus-value

10 The working day

11 The rate and mass of surplus-value

12 The concept of relative surplus-value

13 Cooperation

14 The division of labour and manufacture

1. The dual origin of manufacturing

2. The specialised worker and his tools

3. The two fundamental forms of manufacture-heterogeneous and organic

4. The division of labour in manufacture, and the division of labour in society

5. The capitalist character of manufacture

15 Machinery and large-scale industry

1. The development of machinery

2. The value transferred by the machinery to the product

3. The most immediate effect of machine production on the worker

4. The factory

5. The struggle between worker and machine.

6. The compensation theory, with regard to the workers displaced by machinery

7. Repulsion and attraction of workers through the development of machine production. Crises in the cotton industry

8. The revolutionary impact of large-scale industry on manufacture, handicrafts and domestic industry

9. The health and education clauses of the Factory Acts. The general extension of factory legislation in England

10. Large-scale industry and agriculture

16 Absolute and relative surplus-value

17 Changes of magnitude in the price of labour-power and surplus-value

18 Different formulae for the rate of surplus-value

19 The transformation of the value (and respectively the price) of labour-power into wages

20 Time-wages

21 Piece-wages

22 National differences in wages

23 Simple reproduction

24 The transformation of surplus-value into capital

1. Capitalist production on a progressively increasing scale

2. The political economists' erroneous conception of reproduction on an increasing scale

3. Division of surplus-value into capital and revenue. The abstinence theory

4. The circumstances which, independently of the proportional division of surplus-value into capital and revenue, determine the extent of accumulation

5. The so-called labour fund

25 The general law of capitalist accumulation

1. A growing demand for labour-power accompanies accumulation if composition of capital remains the same

2. A relative diminution of the variable part of capital occurs in the course of the further progress of accumulation and of the concentration accompanying it

3. The progressive production of a relative surplus population or industrial reserve army

4. Different forms of existence of the relative surplus population. The general law of capitalist accumulation.

5. Illustrations of the general law of capitalist accumulation

26 The secret of primitive accumulation

27 The expropriation of the agricultural population from the land

28 Bloody legislation against the expropriated since the end of the 15th century. The forcing down of wages by Act of Parliament

29 The genesis of the capitalist farmer

30 Impact of the agricultural revolution on industry. The creation of a home market for industrial capital

31 The genesis of the industrial capitalist

32 The historical tendency of capitalist accumulation

33 The modern theory of colonisation

Conclusion

Index

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

1-60846-739-2

OCLC:

1255232694