Karl Marx
Capital
Volume One
1867: Dedication
to Wilhelm Wolff
1867: Preface
to the First German Edition
1872: Preface
to the French Edition
1873: Afterword
to the Second German Edition
1875: Afterword
to the French Edition
1883: Preface
to the Third German Edition
1886: Preface
to the English Edition
1890: Preface
to the Fourth German Edition
1867: Marx's
letter to Engels
Part I.
COMMODITIES AND MONEY
Ch. 1: Commodities
Section 1 The
Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (the Substance of Value and the
Magnitude of Value)
Section 2 The
Two-fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
Section 3 The
Form of Value or Exchange-Value
A. Elementary
or Accidental Form of Value
1. The
Two Poles of the Expression of Value: Relative Form and Equivalent Form
2. The
Relative Form of Value
a. The
Nature and Import of this Form
b. Quantitative
Determination of Relative Value
3. The
Equivalent Form of Value
4. The
Elementary Form of Value Considered as a Whole
B. Total
or Expanded Form of Value
1. The
Expanded Relative Form of Value
2. The
Particular Equivalent Form
3. Defects
of the Total or Expanded Form of Value
C. The
General Form of Value
1. The
Altered Character of the Form of Value
2. The
Interdependent Development of the Relative Form of Value, and of the Equivalent
Form
3. Transition
from the General Form of Value to the Money-Form
D. The
Money-Form
Section 4 The
Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof
Ch. 2: Exchange
Ch. 3: Money,
or the Circulation of Commodities
Section 1 The
Measure of Values
Section 2 The
Medium of Circulation
A. The
Metamorphosis of Commodities
B. The
Currency of Money
C. Coin
and Symbols of Value
Section 3 Money
A. Hoarding
B. Means
of Payment
C. Universal
Money
Part II. THE
TRANSFORMATION OF MONEY INTO CAPITAL
Ch. 4: The
General Formula for Capital
Ch. 5: Contradictions
in the General Formula of Capital
Ch. 6: The
Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
Part III. THE
PRODUCTION OF ABSOLUTE SURPLUS-VALUE
Ch. 7: The
Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value
Section 1 The
Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values
Section 2 The
Production of Surplus-Value
Ch. 8: Constant
Capital and Variable Capital
Ch. 9: The
Rate of Surplus-Value
Section 1 The
Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power
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
Ch. 10: The
Working-Day
Section 1 The
Limits of the Working-Day
Section 2 The
Greed for Surplus-Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard
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
Ch. 11: Rate
and Mass of Surplus-Value
Part IV.
PRODUCTION OF RELATIVE SURPLUS-VALUE
Ch. 12: The
Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
Ch. 13: Co-operation
Ch. 14: Division
of Labour and Manufacture
Section 1 Two-fold
Origin of Manufacture
Section 2 The
Detail Labourer and his Implements
Section 3 The
Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial
Manufacture
Section 4 Division
of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society
Section 5 The
Capitalistic Character of Manufacture
Ch. 15: Machinery
and Modern Industry
Section 1 The
Development of Machinery
Section 2 The
Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product
Section 3 The
Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman
A. Appropriation
of Supplementary Labour-Power by Capital. The Employment of Women and Children
B. Prolongation
of the Working-Day
C. Intensification
of Labour
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
A. Overthrow
of Co-operation Based on Handicraft and on the Division of Labour
B. Reaction
of the Factory System on Manufacture and Domestic Industries
C. Modern
Manufacture
D. Modern
Domestic Industry
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
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
Ch. 16: Absolute
and Relative Surplus-Value
Ch. 17: Changes
of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value
Section 1. Length
of the Working-Day and Intensity of Labour Constant. Productiveness of Labour
Variable
Section 2. Working-Day
Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. Intensity of Labour Variable
Section 3. Productiveness
and Intensity of Labour Constant. Length of the Working-Day Variable
Section 4. Simultaneous
Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour
A. Diminishing
Productiveness of Labour with a Simultaneous Lengthening of the Working-Day
B. Increasing
Intensity and Productiveness of Labour with Simultaneous Shortening of the
Working-Day
Ch. 18: Various
Formula for the Rate of Surplus-Value
Part VI. WAGES
Ch. 19: The
Transformation of the Value (and Respective Price) of Labour-Power into Wages
Ch. 20: Time-Wages
Ch. 21: Piece-Wages
Ch. 22: National
Differences of Wages
Part VII. THE
ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL
Ch. 23: Simple
Reproduction
Ch. 24: Conversion
of Surplus-Value into Capital
Section I Capitalist
Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale. Transition of the Laws of
Property that Characterise Production of Commodities into Laws of Capitalist
Appropriation
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
Ch. 25: The
General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Section 1 The
Increased Demand for Labour-Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition
of Capital Remaining the same
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
A. England
from 1846-1866
B. The
Badly Paid Strata of the British Industrial Class
C. The
Nomad Population
D. Effect
of Crises on the Best Paid Part of the Working-Class
E. The
British Agricultural Proletariat
F. Ireland
Part VIII.
PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION
Ch. 26: The
Secret of Primitive Accumulation
Ch. 27: Expropriation
of the Agricultural Population from the Land
Ch. 28: Bloody
Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing
down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Ch. 29: Genesis
of the Capitalist Farmer
Ch. 30: Reaction
of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home-Market for
Industrial Capital
Ch. 31: Genesis
of the Industrial Capitalist
Ch. 32: Historical
Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
Ch. 33: The
Modern Theory of Colonisation
Appendix to the
First German Edition: The
Value-Form
Transcribed by Zodiac (1993)
Html Markup by Stephen Baird (1999)
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