Title: A reader's guide to Marx's Capital /
Authors: Choonara, Joseph
Year: 2019
Subjects: Marx, Karl,; Kapital (Marx, Karl); Marxian economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.; Marxian economics
Abstract: "Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in Marx's Capital inspired, in particular, by the crisis of 2008-9 and the period of slow growth that has followed. Marx was capitalism's greatest critic and his work retains its relevance 150 years after its initial publication. Here, Choonara breaks down the thousand page text, making it inviting and accessible for the reader." -- Amazon.com
Contents: The commodity -- The process of exchange -- Money, or the circulation of commodities -- The general formula of capital -- Contradictions in the general formula -- The sale and purchase of labour-power -- The labour process and valorisation process -- Constant capital and variable capital -- The rate of surplus-value -- The working day -- The rate and mass of surplus-value -- Cooperation -- The division of labour and manufacture -- Machinery and large-scale industry -- Absolute and relative surplus-value -- Changes of magnitude in the price of labour-power and the surplus-value -- Different formulae for the rate of surplus-value -- The transformation of the value (and respectively the price) of labour-power into wages -- Time-wages -- Piece-wages -- National difference in wages --Simple reproduction -- The transformation of surplus-value into capital -- The general law of capitalist accumulation -- The secret primitive accumulation -- The expropriation of the agricultural population from the land -- Bloody legislation against the expropriated since the end of the 15th century.  The forcing down of wages by Act of Parliament -- The genesis of the capitalist farmer -- Impact of the agricultural revolution on industry.  The creation of a home market for industrial capital -- The genesis of the industrial capitalist -- The historical tendency of capitalist accumulation -- The modern theory of colonisation.