The Process of Capitalist ProductionThis eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a famous German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. |
Contents
Money or the Circulation of Commodities | |
The General Formula for Capital | |
Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital | |
The Buying and Selling of LabourPower | |
The Production of Absolute SurplusValue | |
The Degree of Exploitation of LabourPower | |
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 | |
Revolution Effected in Manufacture Handicrafts and Domestic Industry | |
The Factory Acts | |
Modern Industry and Agriculture | |
Production of Absolute and Relative SurplusValue | |
Absolute and Relative SurplusValue | |
The Working | |
Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation | |
Day and Night Work The Relay System | |
Compulsory Limitation by Law of the WorkingTime | |
Cooperation | |
Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries | |
The Concept of Relative SurplusValue | |
Division of Labour and Manufacture I TwoFold Origin of Manufacture | |
The Detail Labourer and his Implements | |
The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture | |
Division of Labour in Manufacture and Division of Labour in Society | |
The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture | |
Machinery and Modern Industry I The Development of Machinery | |
The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product | |
The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman IV The Factory | |
Changes of Magnitude in the Price of LabourPower and in Surplus Value I Length of the Working day and Intensity of Labour Constant | |
Working Day Constant | |
Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant | |
Simultaneous Variations in the Duration Productiveness and Intensity of Labour | |
Various Formula for the rate of SurplusValue | |
Wages | |
The Transformation of the Value and Respective Price of LabourPower into Wages | |
TimeWages | |
Piece Wages | |
National Differences of Wages | |
The Accumulation of Capital | |
Simple Reproduction | |
Conversion of SurplusValue into Capital I Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale | |
Erroneous Conception | |
Common terms and phrases
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