Wage-Labor and Capital

Wage-Labor and Capital

"Wage-Labor and Capital" is an essay on economics by Karl Marx, written in 1847. This book has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx’s masterpiece Das Kapital. The ideas that are expressed in the book have a very thorough economic contemplation about them as he put aside some of his materialist conceptions of history for the time being. This book did, however, start to show an increased scientific rationale on his ideas of "alienated labor," which in Marx’s perspective would eventually lead to the proletarian revolution.

Wage-Labor and Capital is for all intents and purposes an in-depth economic and scientific observation on how capitalist economy works, why it was exploitative, and ultimately why it would eventually implode from within.

Some of the main topics that the book examines are about labour power and labour, and how labour power becomes a commodity. It also presents the Labour Theory of Value that further develops the distinct differences between "labour" and "labour power". The book also examines the "commodity" and how the economic principles of supply and demand affect the pricing of certain commodities. Beyond that the book explores how capital and capitalism do not service any purpose other than to gain more of it, which Marx presents as an illogical method of living one’s life.

External links

* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm Online Text of this book]
* [http://librivox.org/wage-labour-and-capital-by-marx-karl/ Free audiobook of "Wage-Labour and Capital"] from LibriVox


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