(P/B) CAPITAL

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Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation. Of central importance then and later was his book Das Kapital, or, as it is known to English readers, simply Capital.
Volume One of Capital was published in Paris in 1867. This was the only volume published during Marx's lifetime and the only to have come directly from his pen. Volume Two, published in 1884, was based on notes Marx left, but written by his friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels (1820-1895).
Readers from the nineteenth century to the present have been captivated by the unmistakable power and urgency of this classic of world literature. Marx's critique of the capitalist system is rife with big themes: his theory of 'surplus value', his discussion of the exploitation of the working class, and his forecast of class conflict on a grand scale. Marx wrote with purpose.
As he famously put it, 'Philosophers have previously tried to explain the world, our task is to change it.' (From the publisher)

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Introduction
Further reading
Typesetter's note
Volume I. Capitalist Production
Prefaces
Part 1. Commodities and Money
Chapter 1. Commodities
The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (The Substance of Value & the Magnitude of Value)
The Twofold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
The Form of Value or Exchange Value
The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
Chapter 2. Exchange
Chapter 3. Money, or the Circulation of Commodities
The Measure of Values
The Medium of Circulation
Money
Part 2. The Transformation of Money into Capital
Chapter 4. The General Formula for Capital
Chapter 5. Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
Chapter 6. The Buying and Selling of Labour Power
Part 3. The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value
Chapter 7. The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value
The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values
The Production of Surplus-Value
Chapter 8. Constant Capital and Variable Capital
Chapter 9. The Rate of Surplus-Value
The Degree of Exploitation of Labour Power
The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product Itself
Senior's 'Last Hour'
Surplus-Produce
Chapter 10. The Working-Day
The Limits of the Working-Day
The Greed for Surplus-Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard
Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation
Day and Night Work. The Relay System
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 ijth Century
The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time. The English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864.
The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries
Chapter 11. Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
Part 4. The Production of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 12. The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 13. Co-Operation
Chapter 14. Division of Labour and Manufacture
Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture 2. The Detail Labourer and his Implements
The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture
Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society
The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture
Chapter 15. Machinery and Modern Industry
The Development of Machinery
The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product
The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman
The Factory
The Strife Between Workman and Machine
The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery
Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade
Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry
The Factory Acts. Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the Same. Their General Extension in England
Modern Industry and Agriculture
Part 5: The Production of Absolute and of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour Power and in Surplus-Value
Length of the Working-Day and Intensity of Labour Constant. Productiveness of Labour Variable
Working-Day Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. Intensity of Labour Variable
Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant. Length of the Working-Day Variable
Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour
Chapter 18: Various Formulae for the Rate of Surplus-Value
Part 6: Wages
Chapter 19: The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour Power into Wages
Chapter 20: Time-Wages
Chapter 21: Piece-Wages
Chapter 22: National Differences of Wages
Part 7: The Accumulation of Capital
Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction
Chapter 24: Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital [...]
Chapter 25: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Volume 2. The Circulation of Capital