Productive Force and the Degree of Intensity of Labour: Marx’s Concepts and Formalizations in the Middle Part of Capital I

Geert Reuten

Chapter 5 in The Constitution of Capital, 2004, pp 117-145 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The first volume of Marx’s Capital (1867) is subtitled ‘The production process of capital’. This reveals the twofold object of the book of, first, an outline of the capitalist form of production — that is, in contradistinction to other modes of production — and, second, the production of capital itself — that is, its continuity. There are again two aspects to this object. The first is highlighted in the middle part of the book — Parts Three to Six — on the production of surplus-value. It sets out how the production of surplus-value (profit) is the motive force of capital, how surplus-value is actually produced and so how capital grows. The second aspect is the resulting process of accumulation of capital — treated in the end part of the book.

Keywords: Wage Rate; Productive Force; Labour Process; Labour Time; Historical Materialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403938640_5

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