How to Read Marx's CapitalPluto Press, 20 mars 2008 - 192 pages Capital Volume I is essential reading on many undergraduate courses, but the structure and style of the book can be confusing for students, leading them to abandon the text. This book is a clear guide to reading Marx's classic text, which explains the reasoning behind the book's structure and provides help with the more technical aspects that non-economists may find taxing.Students are urged to think for themselves and engage with Marx's powerful methods of argument and explanation. Shapiro shows that Capital is key to understanding critical theory and cultural production.This highly focused book will prove invaluable to students of politics, cultural studies and literary theory. |
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COMMODITIES AND MONEY | 1 |
THE TRANSFORMATION OF MONEY INTO CAPITAL | 55 |
The Sale and Purchase of LabourPower | 63 |
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absolute surplus-value abstract amount appears argument become buyers and sellers Capital's Capitalist Accumulation capitalist societies century changes Chapter circulation of commodities co-operation coat commodity fetishism commodity's value constant capital costs create surplus-value create value defines division of labour economic economists Edward Aveling emerges exchange exploitation factory feudal force form of value Friedrich Engels guilds historical human labour increase increasingly individual invested involves kind labour process labour-power labour-time labourer's land large-scale industry less machine machinery magnitude market place Marx argues Marx calls Marx says Marx's Capital means of production measure of value mode of production modern money-form necessary labour needs number of workers object primitive accumulation produce surplus-value productivity of labour profit proletarian rate of exploitation rate of surplus-value relations relative surplus-value satisfy Section sell simply skilled social sphere surplus labour trade transformation understand use-value variable capital wages