Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Volume 1): The Process of Capitalist Production

Marx, Karl; Engels, Frederick (editor)

ISBN 10: 0717806219 / ISBN 13: 9780717806218

Published by International Publishers, New York, NY, USA, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Volume 1): The Process of Capitalist Production
• Publisher: International Publishers, New York, NY, USA
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0717806219
• ISBN 13: 9780717806218
• Binding: softcover
• Condition: good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

Capital. Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital by Karl Marx.
In Volume I, the only part of Marx's multi-volume Capital: Critique of Political Economy to be published during his lifetime, Marx elucidates the production of capital. This volume is, possibly, the most important book in working-class history and is a major work of modern economic thought. 864 pages.

Table of Contents

Contents
Part One
Commodities and Money
Chapter 1: The Commodity
Chapter 2: Exchang
Chapter 3: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities
Part Two
The Transformation of Money into Capital
Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital
Chapter 5: Contridictions in the General Formula of Capital
Chapter 6: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power

Part Three
The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value
Chapter 7: The Labour Process and the Process of Producing Surplus -Value
Chapter8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital
Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value
Chapter10: The Working-Day
Chapter 11: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value

Part Four
The Production of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 13: Co-operation
Chapter 14: The Division of Labour and Manufacture
Chapter 15: Machinery and Large-Scale Industry
Part Five
The Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 16: The Rise of Surplus Value
Chapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the price of Labor-Power and in Surplus-Value
Part Six
Wages
Chapter 19: The Transformation of the Value (and Respective Price) of Labour-Power into Wages
Chapter 20: Time-Wages
Chapter 21: Piece-Wages
Chapter 22: National Differences of Wages

Part Seven:
The Process of Accumulation of Capital
Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction
Chapter 24: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Capital
Chapter 25, Sections 3 and 4: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Part Eight
Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 27: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population From the Land
Chapter 28: Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Chapter 29: Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
Chapter 30: Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home-Market for Industrial Capital
Chapter 31: The Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
Chapter 32: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
Chapter 33: The Modern Theory of Colonisation

About the Author

Karl Marx