Wage-Labour and Capital: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wage-Labour and Capital, credited to Karl Marx, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Wage-Labour and Capital by Karl Marx. Read by Carl Manchester. Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give a short overview, for popular consumption, of Marx's central theories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. These theories outlined include the Marxian form of the Labour Theory of Value, which distinguishes "labour" from "labour-power", and the Theory of Concentration of Capital, which states that capitalism tends towards the creation of monopolies and the disenfranchisement of the middle and working classes. The Theory of Alienation, which describes a dehumanising effect of capitalist production, in which an immediate social significance of labour to the worker is absent, is also touched upon. These theories were later elaborated in Volume 1 of Capital, published in 1867. This edition of Wage-Labour and Capital, published in 1891, was edited and translated by Friedrich Engels, and remains one of the most widely read of Marx's works. (Description by Carl Manchester).

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wage-Labour and Capital
• Author credits: Karl Marx
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 1:42:26

Catalogue topics

• marx
• economics
• politics
• capitalism
• socialism

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction by Engels — 22:30
2. 01 - Preliminary — 4:38
3. 02 - What Are Wages? — 10:26
4. 03 - By What is the Price of a Commodity Determined? — 11:30
5. 04 - By What are Wages Determined? — 3:58
6. 05 - The Nature and Growth of Capital — 7:26
7. 06 - Relation of Wage-Labour to Capital — 11:32
8. 07 - The General Law — 7:00
9. 08 - The Interests of Capital and Wage-Labour — 9:20
10. 09 - Effect of Capitalist Competition — 14:11

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