Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume One

Contents

• Prefaces and Afterwords
• Part I: Commodities and Money
  • Chapter One: Commodities
    • [First German Edition]
    • Section 1: The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and 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
  • Chapter Two: Exchange
  • Chapter Three: Money, or the Circulation of Commodities
• Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital
  • Chapter Four: The General Formula for Capital
  • Chapter Five: Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital
  • Chapter Six: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
• Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value
  • Chapter Seven: The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value
  • Chapter Eight: Constant Capital and Variable Capital
  • Chapter Nine: The Rate of Surplus-Value
  • Chapter Ten: The Working-Day
  • Chapter Eleven: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
• Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value
  • Chapter Twelve: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
  • Chapter Thirteen: Co-operation
  • Chapter Fourteen: Division of Labour and Manufacture
  • Chapter Fifteen: Machinery and Modern Industry
• Part V: The Production of Absolute and of Relative Surplus-Value
  • Chapter Sixteen: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
  • Chapter Seventeen: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value
  • Chapter Eighteen: Various Formulae for the Rate of Surplus-Value
• Part VI: Wages
  • Chapter Nineteen: The Transformation of the Value (and Respective Price) of Labour-Power into Wages
  • Chapter Twenty: Time-Wages
  • Chapter Twenty-One: Piece-Wages
  • Chapter Twenty-Two: National Differences of Wages
• Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital
  • Chapter Twenty-Three: Simple Reproduction
  • Chapter Twenty-Four: Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital
  • Chapter Twenty-Five: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
• Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation
  • Chapter Twenty-Six: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
  • Chapter Twenty-Seven: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land
  • Chapter Twenty-Eight: Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the Fifteenth Century; Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
  • Chapter Twenty-Nine: Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
  • Chapter Thirty: Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry; Creation of the Home-Market for Industrial Capital
  • Chapter Thirty-One: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
  • Chapter Thirty-Two: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
  • Chapter Thirty-Three: The Modern Theory of Colonisation
• Appendix to the First German Edition: The Value-Form