MECW Vol. 35

Volume I of Capital, Marx’s principal work on the process of producing capital, with the editorial and historical material accompanying the text.

Source: Lawrence & Wishart

Contents

93 chapters

• Colophon
• Contents
• Preface to this edition
• CAPITAL A Critique of Political Economy Volume I
• Prefaces to editions
• K. Marx. Afterword to the Second German Edition
• K. Marx. Preface to the French Edition
• K. Marx. Afterword to the French Edition
• F. Engels. Preface to the Third German Edition
• F. Engels. Preface to the English Edition
• F. Engels. Preface to the Fourth German Edition
• BOOK I THE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION OF CAPITAL
• PART I COMMODITIES AND MONEY
• Section 2. - The Twofold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
• Section 3.- The Form of Value or Exchange Value
• Section 4.- The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
• Chapter II.- Exchange
• Chapter III.- Money, or the Circulation of Commodities
• Section 2.- The Medium of Circulation
• Section 3.- Money
• PART II THE TRANSFORMATION OF MONEY INTO CAPITAL
• Chapter V.- Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital .
• Chapter VI.- The Buying and Selling of Labour Power
• PART III THE PRODUCTION OF ABSOLUTE SURPLUS VALUE
• Section 2.- The Production of Surplus Value
• Chapter VIII.- Constant Capital and Variable Capital
• Chapter IX.- The Rate of Surplus Value
• Section 2.- The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product Itself
• Section 3.- Senior's " Last Hour"
• Section 4.- Surplus Produce
• Chapter X.- The Working Day
• Section 2.- The Greed for Surplus Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard 24
• Section 3.- Branches of English Industry Without Legal Limits to Exploitation
• Section 4.- Day and Night Work. The Relay System
• 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
• Section 6.- The Struggle for the Normal Working Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working Time. The English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864
• Section 7.- The Struggle for the Normal Working Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries
• Chapter XI.—Rate and Mass of Surplus Value
• PART IV PRODUCTION OF RELATIVE SURPLUS VALUE
• Chapter XIII.—Co-operation
• Chapter XIV.- Division of Labour and Manufacture
• Section 2.- The Detail Labourer and his Implements
• Section 3. - The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heter ogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture
• Section 4.- Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society
• Section 5.- The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture
• Chapter XV.- Machinery and Modern Industry
• Section 2.- The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product
• Section 3.- The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman
• Section 4.- The Factory
• Section 5.- The Strife Between Workman and Machine
• Section 6.- The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery
• Section 7.- Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade
• Section 8.- Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry
• Section 9.- The Factory Acts. Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the Same. Their General Extension in England
• Section 10.- Modern Industry and Agriculture
• PART V THE PRODUCTION OF ABSOLUTE AND OF RELATIVE SURPLUS VALUE
• Chapter XVII.- Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour Power and in Surplus Value
• II. Working Day Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. Intensity of Labour Variable
• III. Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant. Length of the Working Day Variable
• IV. Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour
• Chapter XVIII.- Various Formulae for the Rate of Surplus Value
• PART VI WAGES
• Chapter XX.- Time Wages
• Chapter XXL— Piece Wages
• Chapter XXII.- National Differences of Wages
• PART VII THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL
• Chapter XXIII.- Simple Reproduction
• Chapter XXIV.- Conversion of Surplus Value into Capital
• Section 2.- Erroneous Conception, by Political Economy, of Reproduction on a Progressively Increasing Scale
• Section 3.- Separation of Surplus Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory
• 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
• Section 5.—The So-Called Labour Fund
• Chapter XXV.- The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
• Section 2.- Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration that Accompanies it
• Section 3.- Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army
• Section 4.- Different Forms of the Relative Surplus Population. The General Law of Capitalistic Accumulation
• Section 5.- Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
• PART VIII THE SO-CALLED PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION
• Chapter XXVII.- Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
• Chapter XXVIII.- Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
• Chapter XXIX.- Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
• Chapter XXX.- Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home Market for Industrial Capital
• Chapter XXXI.- Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
• Chapter XXXII.- Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation . .
• Chapter XXXIII.- The Modern Theory of Colonisation
• Notes
• Name Index
• Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature
• Index of Periodicals
• Illustrations
• Marx's letter to Lachâtre of March 18, 1872, the facsimile of which is given in the French edition of Volume I of Capital
• Cover of the first issue of the French edition of Volume I of Capital
• Title page of the first English edition of Volume I of Capital