Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 30

Volume 30

Karl Marx Economic Works
1861-1863

Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63

A Contribution to the Critique of
Political Economy
Third Chapter, Capital in General

Notebooks I to VII, pp. 1-210 and 220-299.

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I. The Production Process of Capital	9
1) Transformation of Money into Capital	9
a) M—C—M. The Most General Form of Capital	9
b) Difficulties Arising from the Nature of Value, etc	20
c) Exchange with Labour. Labour Process. Valorisation Process	33
Value of labour capacity. Minimum salary or average wage of Labour	42
Exchange of Money with Labour Capacity	50
The Labour Process	54
The Valorisation Process	66
Unity of the Labour Process and the Valorisation Process     (The Capitalist Production Process)	92
The 2 Components of the Transformation of Money into Capital	103
Additions	137
2) Absolute Surplus Value	172
a) Surplus Value Is to Be Conceived as a Simple Relation to a Definite Portion of Capital, Namely That Laid Out in Wages	172
b) Ratio of Surplus Labour to Necessary Labour. Measure of Surplus Labour	180
c) Advantage of Overwork	185
d) Simultaneous Working Days	185
e) Character of Surplus Labour	190
Additions	193
Rate of Surplus Value	229
3) Relative Surplus Value	233
a) Cooperation	255
b) Division of Labour	264
Digression: (on Productive Labour)	306
c) Machinery. Utilisation of the Forces of Nature and of Science     (steam, electricity, mechanical and chemical agencies)	318
5) Theories of Surplus Value	348
a) [Sir James Steuart]	348
b) The Physiocrats	352
c) Adam Smith	376
[Inquiry into How It Is Possible for the Annual Profit and Wages to Buy the Annual Commodities, Which Besides Profit and Wages Also Contain Constant Capital]	411
Notes and Indexes
Notes	455
Name Index	482
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature	490
Index of Periodicals	501
Illustrations
Cover page of Notebook I of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63	7
Inside cover page of Notebook I of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63	8
Page 113 of Notebook III of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63	207
Page 182 of Notebook V of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63	307
Page 220 of Notebook VI of the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63	349

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