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| Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 35Capital Volume 1
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 Publisher:  Progress Publishers
 Pages:  852pp   ISBN:  0-7178-0535-2 (v. 35)
 Resource Type:  Book
 
 Capital. Volume 1.
 
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 Table of Contents
 
 Karl Marx
 CAPITAL, Volume I
 
 Preface to the First German Edition (Marx)	7
 Afterword to the Second German Edition (Marx)	12
 Preface to the French Edition (Marx)	23
 Afterword to the French Edition (Marx)	24
 Preface to the Third German Edition (Engels)	27
 Preface to the English Edition (Engels)	30
 Preface to the Fourth German Edition (Engels)	37
 Book I: The Process of Production of Capital
 Part I: Commodities and Money
 Chapter I Commodities	45
 
 Section 1. The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use Value and Value (the Substance Of Value and the Magnitude of Value)
 45
 
 Section 2. The Twofold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
 51
 
 Section 3. The Form of Value or Exchange Value
 57
 
 A. Elementary or Accidental Form of Value
 58
 
 1. The Two Poles of the Expression of Value: Relative Form and Equivalent Form
 58
 
 2. The Relative Form of Value
 59
 
 (a.) The Nature and Import of This Form
 59
 
 (b.) Quantitative Determination of Relative Value
 63
 
 3. The Equivalent Form of Value
 65
 
 4. The Elementary Form Of Value Considered as a Whole
 70
 
 B. Total or Expanded Form of Value
 73
 
 1. The Expanded Relative Form of Value
 73
 
 2. The Particular Equivalent Form
 74
 
 3. Defects of the Total or Expanded Form of Value
 74
 
 C. The General Form of Value
 75
 
 1. The Altered Character of the Form of Value
 76
 
 2. The Interdependent Development of the Relative Form of Value, and Of the Equivalent Form
 78
 
 3. Transition from the General Form of Value to the Money Form
 80
 
 D. The Money Form
 80
 
 Section 4. The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
 81
 Chapter II. Exchange	94
 Chapter III. Money, or the Circulation of Commodities	103
 
 Section 1. The Measure of Values
 103
 
 Section 2. The Medium of Circulation
 113
 
 a. The Metamorphosis of Commodities
 113
 
 b. The Currency of Money
 124
 
 c. Coin and Symbols of Value
 135
 
 Section 3. Money
 140
 
 a. Hoarding
 140
 
 b. Means of Payment
 145
 
 c. Universal Money
 153
 Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital
 Chapter IV The General Formula for Capital	157
 Chapter V Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital	149
 Chapter VI The Buying and Selling of Labour Power	177
 Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus Value
 Chapter VII The Labour Process and the Process of Producing Surplus Value	187
 
 Section 1. The Labour Process or the Production of Use Values
 187
 
 Section 2. The Production of Surplus Value
 196
 Chapter VIII Constant Capital and Variable Capital	209
 Chapter IX The Rate of Surplus Value	221
 
 Section 1. The Degree of Exploitation of Labour Power
 221
 
 Section 2. The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product Itself
 230
 
 Section 3. Senior's "Last Hour"
 233
 
 Section 4. Surplus Produce
 238
 Chapter X The Working Day	239
 
 Section 1. The Limits of the Working Day
 239
 
 Section 2. The Greed for Surplus Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard
 243
 
 Section 3. Branches of English Industry Without Legal Limits to Exploitation
 251
 
 Section 4. Day and Night Work. The Relay System
 263
 
 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
 270
 
 Section 6. The Struggle for the Normal Working Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working Time. The English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864
 283
 
 Section 7. The Struggle for the Normal Working Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries
 302
 Chapter XI Rate and Mass of Surplus Value	307
 PART IV: PRODUCTION OF RELATIVE SURPLUS VALUE
 Chapter XII The Concept of Relative Surplus Value	317
 Chapter XIII Co-operation	326
 Chapter XIV Division of Labour and Manufacture	341
 
 Section 1. Two-fold Origin of Manufacture
 341
 
 Section 2. The Detail Labourer and his Implements
 344
 
 Section 3. The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture
 347
 
 Section 4. Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society
 356
 
 Section 5. The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture
 364
 Chapter XV Machinery and Modern Industry	374
 
 Section 1. The Development of Machinery
 374
 
 Section 2. The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product
 389
 
 Section 3. The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman
 397
 
 a. Appropriation of Supplementary Labour Power by Capital. The Employment of Women and Children
 398
 
 b. Prolongation of the Working Day
 406
 
 c. Intensification of Labour
 412
 
 Section 4. The Factory
 420
 
 Section 5. The Strife Between Workman and Machine
 430
 
 Section 6. The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery
 440
 
 Section 7. Repulsion and Attraction Of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade
 450
 
 Section 8. Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry
 462
 
 a. Overthrow of Co-operation Based on Handicraft and on the Division of Labour
 462
 
 b. Reaction of the Factory System on Manufacture and Domestic Industries
 464
 
 c. Modern Manufacture
 466
 
 d. Modern Domestic Industry
 468
 
 e. Passage of Modern Manufacture, and Domestic Industry into Modern Mechanical Industry. The Hastening of This Revolution by the Application Of the Factory Acts to Those Industries
 473
 
 Section 9. The Factory Acts Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the Same Their General Extension in England
 483
 
 Section l0. Modern Industry and Agriculture
 505
 PART V: THE PRODUCTION OF ABSOLUTE and RELATIVE SURPLUS VALUE
 Chapter XVI Absolute and Relative Surplus Value	509
 Chapter XVII Changes Of Magnitude in the Price of Labour Power and in Surplus Value	519
 
 I. Length of the Working Day and Intensity of Labour Constant Productiveness of Labour Variable
 520
 
 II. Working Day Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. Intensity of Labour Variable
 524
 
 III. Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant. Length of the Working Day Variable
 526
 
 IV. Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour
 527
 
 (1.) Diminishing Productiveness of Labour with a Simultaneous Lengthening of the Working Day
 528
 
 (2.) Increasing Intensity and Productiveness of Labour with Simultaneous Shortening of the Working Day
 530
 Chapter XVIII Various Formulae for the Rate of Surplus Value	531
 Part VI: Wages
 Chapter XIX The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour Power into Wages	535
 Chapter XX Time Wages	542
 Chapter XXI Piece Wages	550
 Chapter XXII National Differences of Wages	558
 Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital
 Chapter XXIII Simple Reproduction	565
 Chapter XXIV Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital	578
 
 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
 578
 
 Section 2. Erroneous Conception, by Political Economy, of Reproduction on a Progressively Increasing Scale
 584
 
 Section 3. Separation of Surplus Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory
 587
 
 Section 4. Circumstances that, Independently of the Proportional Division Of Surplus Value into Capital and Revenue Determine the Amount of Accumulation. Degree of Exploitation of Labour Power. Productivity of Labour. Growing Difference in Amount Between Capital Employed and Capital Consumed. Magnitude of Capital Advanced
 595
 
 Section 5. The So-called Labour Fund
 604
 Chapter XXV The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation	607
 
 Section 1. The Increased Demand for Labour Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same
 607
 
 Section 2. Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration that Accompanies it
 616
 
 Section 3. Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army
 623
 
 Section 4. Different Forms of the Relative Surplus Population. The General Law of Capitalistic Accumulation
 634
 
 Section 5. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
 642
 
 (a) England from 1846 - 1866
 642
 
 (b) The Badly Paid Strata of the British Industrial Class
 648
 
 (c) The Nomad Population
 657
 
 (d) Effect of Crises on the Best Paid Part of the Working Class
 660
 
 (e) The British Agricultural Proletariat
 665
 
 (f) Ireland
 688
 Part VIII: The So-Called Primitive Accumulation
 Chapter XXVI The Secret of Primitive Accumulation	704
 Chapter XXVII Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land	707
 Chapter XXVIII Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament	723
 Chapter XIX Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer	731
 Chapter XXX Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home Market for Industrial Capital	733
 Chapter XXXI Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist	738
 Chapter XXXII Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation	748
 Chapter XXXIII The Modern Theory of Colonisation	751
 
 
 Notes and Indexes
 Notes	765
 Name Index	808
 Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature	816
 Index of Periodicals	852
 
 
 Illustrations
 Title Page of the First German Edition of Volume I of Capital	2
 Marx's letter to Lachatre of March 18, 1872, the facsimile of which is given in the French edition of Volume I of Capital	25
 Title page of the first English edition of Volume I of Capital	31
 
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