By: Karl Marx, C.J. Arthur (Editor)

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Karl Marx's Capital is the classic text of Marxism for economists, social scientists, philosophers, students and political activists alike. But the sheer extent of Marx's great work of political economy has often daunted readers, and hampered their understanding of his ideas. Chris Arthur has substantially edited and abridged Marx's monumental work, eliminating the more arcane polemics, the scholarly footnotes, statistical data and mathematical formulae. He leaves intact and clarified Marx's main theoretical arguments and the historical information which supports them. 'Chris Arthur has solved the problem of slimming down Capital with exceptional success' EJ Hobsbawm 'A skilful abridgement...approachable and readable' Sean Sayers, Political Studies

Editor's Introduction
Preface to the First German Edition
Afterword to the Second German Edition
Commodities	p. 3
Exchange	p. 41
Money, or the Circulation of Commodities	p. 48
The General Formula for Capital	p. 83
Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital	p. 91
The Buying and Selling of Labour-power	p. 98
The Labour-process and the Process of Producing Surplus-value	p. 107
Constant Capital and Variable Capital	p. 126
The Rate of Surplus-value	p. 136
The Working Day	p. 141
Rate and Mass of Surplus-value	p. 176
The Concept of Relative Surplus-value	p. 183
Cooperation	p. 191
Division of Labour and Manufacture	p. 199
Machinery and Modern Industry	p. 222
Absolute and Relative Surplus-value	p. 299
Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-power and in Surplus-value	p. 302
The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour-power into Wages	p. 309
National Differences in Wages	p. 315
Simple Reproduction	p. 319
Conversion of Surplus-value into Capital	p. 326
The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation	p. 337
The Secret of Primitive Accumulation	p. 363
Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land	p. 365
Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the Fifteenth Century	p. 373
Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation	p. 376
Index	p. 381
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ISBN: 9780853157779
ISBN-10: 0853157774
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 414
Published: 1st June 1993
Dimensions (cm): 21.7 x 14.4  x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.521