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
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
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. 29: Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer
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)