In his classic of early modernism, Marx combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. This is the only abridged edition to take into account the whole of Capital. It offers virtually all of Volume 1, which Marx himself published in 1867; excerpts from a new translation of "The Result of the Immediate Process Production"; and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3, which Engels published in 1895.

Includes indexes. "First issued as a World's Classic paperback 1995, reissued as an Oxford World's Classic paperback in 1999, reissued in 2008"--Title page verso.

From Volume One -- Preface to the First German Edition -- Afterword to the Second German Edition -- Commodities and Money -- Commodities -- The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (the Substance of Value and the Magnitude of Value) -- The Two-Fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities -- The Form of Value or Exchange-Value -- The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof -- Exchange -- Money, or the Circulation of Commodities -- The Measure of Values -- The Medium of Circulation -- Money -- The Transformation of Money into Capital -- The General Formula for Capital -- Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital -- The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power -- The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value -- The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value -- The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values -- The Production of Surplus-Value -- Constant Capital and Variable Capital -- The Rate of Surplus-Value -- The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power -- The Working-Day -- The Limits of the Working-Day -- The Greed for Surplus-Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard -- Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation -- Day and Night Work. The Relay System -- The Struggle for a Normal Working-Day. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working-Day from the Middle of the 14th to the End of the 17th Century -- The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time. The English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864 -- The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries -- Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value -- The Production of Relative Surplus-Value -- The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value -- Co-operation -- Division of Labour and Manufacture -- Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture -- The Detail Labourer and his Implements -- The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture -- Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society -- The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture -- Machinery and Modern Industry -- The Development of Machinery -- The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product -- The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman -- The Factory -- The Strife between Workman and Machine -- The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery -- Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade -- Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry -- The Factory Acts. Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the Same. Their General Extension in England -- Modern Industry and Agriculture -- The Production of Absolute and of Relative Surplus-Value -- Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value -- Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value -- Length of the Working-Day and Intensity of Labour Constant. Productiveness of Labour Variable -- Working-Day Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. Intensity of Labour Variable -- Wages -- The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour-Power into Wages -- The Accumulation of Capital -- Simple Reproduction -- Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital -- Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale. Transition of the Laws of Property that Characterise Production of Commodities into Laws of Capitalist Appropriation -- Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory -- The So-Called Labour-Fund -- The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation -- The Increased Demand for Labour-Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same -- Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration that Accompanies it -- Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus-Population or Industrial Reserve Army -- Different Forms of the Relative Surplus-Population. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation -- The So-Called Primitive Accumulation -- The Secret of Primitive Accumulation -- Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land -- Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament -- Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist -- Historical Tendency of Capitalistic Accumulation -- From 'Results of the Immediate Process of Production' -- From Volume Three -- Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit) and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices of Production -- The Law as Such -- Counteracting Influences -- Increasing Intensity of Exploitation -- Depression of Wages below the Value of Labour-Power -- Cheapening of Elements of Constant Capital -- Relative Over-Population -- Foreign Trade -- The Increase of Stock Capital -- Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law -- Conflict between Expansion of Production and Production of Surplus-Value -- Excess Capital and Excess Population -- Genesis of Capitalist Ground-Rent -- Labour Rent -- Rent in Kind -- The Trinity Formula -- Marx's Selected Footnotes.