Understanding Marx's Capital Volume 1 Chapter 15 - Machinery And Modern Industry (Sections 4-7)
Channel: Dissident Theory
Date: 2021-04-13

Karl Marx's Capital Volume 1
Part 4 - The Production of Relative Surplus-Value
Chapter 15 - Division of Labour and Manufacture (Section 4-7)



This video is a look at sections 4 - 7 of Chapter 15 of Marx's Capital, Machinery and Modern Industry. Marx analyses the creation of hierarchies within manufacturing. He also examines the historical struggle by workers against technology, unemployment caused by machinery, machinery's role in colonialism and capitalism's expansive nature. 



0:00 - Section 4 The Factory
01:00 - Workplace Hierarchies
01:53 - Section 5 Workers Vs Machines 
03:25 - Section 6 Workers Displaced by Machinery
04:08 - Underconsumption 
04:55 - Compensation Theory 
05:22 - Machinery's Role in Colonialism 
07:54 - Section 7 Repulsion and Attraction 















 

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