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Library:Karl Marx/Capital, vol. I

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Commodities and money

Commodities

The two factors of a commodity: use-value and value (the substance of value and the magnitude of value)

Exchange

Money, or the circulation of commodities

Transformation of money into capital

The general formula for capital

Contradictions in the general formula of capital

The buying and selling of labour-power

Production of absolute surplus-value

The labour-process and the process of producing surplus-value

The labour-process or the production of use-values

The production of surplus-value

Constant capital and variable capital

The rate of surplus-value

The degree of exploitation of labor-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

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 17th century

The struggle for a normal working day. Compulsory limitation by law of the working-time. English factory acts, 1833

The struggle for a normal working day. Reaction of the English factory acts on other countries

Rate and mass of surplus-value

Production of relative surplus-value

The concept of relative surplus-value

Co-operation

Division of labour and manufacture

Two-fold origin of manufacture

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

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

Production of absolute and relative surplus-value

Absolute and relative surplus-value

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

Various formula for the rate of surplus-value

Wages

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

Time-wages

Piece wages

National differences of wages

The accumulation of capital

Simple reproduction

Conversion of surplus-value into capital

Capitalist production on a progressively increasing scale. Transition of the laws of property that characterise production of commodities into laws of capitalist appropriation

Erroneous conception, by political economy, of reproduction on a progressively increasing scale

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

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

The so-called labour fund

The general law of capitalist accumulation

The increased demand for labour power that accompanies accumulation, the composition of capital remaining the same

Relative diminution of the variable part of capital simultaneously with the progress of accumulation and of the concentration that accompanies it

Progressive production of a relative surplus population or industrial reserve army

Different forms of the relative surplus population. The general law of capitalistic accumulation

Illustrations of the general law of capitalist accumulation

Primitive accumulation

The secret of primitive accumulation

Expropriation of the agricultural population from the land

Bloody legislation against the expropriated, from the end of the 15th century. Forcing down of wages by acts of parliament

Genesis of the capitalist farmer

Reaction of the agricultural revolution on industry. Creation of the home-market

For industrial capital

The genesis of the industrial capitalist

Historical tendency of capitalist accumulation

The modern theory of colonisation

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