Works of Karl Marx 1847

Wage Labour and Capital

Delivered: December 1847;

Source: Wage Labour and Capital, the original 1891 pamphlet;

Edited/Translated: Frederick Engels;

First Published (in German): Neue Rheinische Zeitung, April 5-8 and 11, 1849;

Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1993, 1999;

Transcription/Markup: Zodiac and Brian Baggins;

Proofed: and corrected by Alek Blain, 2006.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Preliminary

What are wages?

By what is the price of a commodity determined?

By what are wages determined?

The nature and growth of capital

Relation of wage-labor to capital

The general law that determines the rise and fall of wages and profit

The interests of capital and wage-labor are diametrically opposed

Effect of capitalist competition on the capitalist class, middle class and working class