{"title":"Political science and theory Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-transgender-issue-9780141991801","title":"The Transgender Issue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE INSTANT \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Few books are as urgent as Shon Faye''s debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we'' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Unsparing, important and weighty ... a vitally needed antidote'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''A moving and impressively comprehensive overview of trans life'' \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war ''issue''. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country''s population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized ''debate'' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the ''transgender issue'' to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Transgender Issue\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark work that signals the beginning of a new, healthier conversation about trans life. It is a manifesto for change, and a call for justice and solidarity between all marginalized people and minorities. Trans liberation, as Faye sees it, goes to the root of what our society is and what it could be; it offers the possibility of a more just, free and joyful world for all of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''Fundamentally not a culture-war book. It operates outside the narrow coverage of trans people in the mainstream, and lays bare the inarguable facts'' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Monumental and utterly convincing - crystal clear in its understanding of how the world should be'' Judith Butler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew books are as urgent as Shon Faye's debut ... The analysis is \u003cb\u003ethorough and heartbreaking \u003c\/b\u003e... it's a highly fact-based book backed up with statistics and case studies, but she manages to write it in a hugely emotive and powerful way ... \u003cb\u003eFaye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we. \u003c\/b\u003e -- Prudence Wade * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFaye puts forward a powerful case not of what separates us but what brings us together.\u003c\/b\u003e Above all, her book is a cry for compassion for an embattled community and a plea to be treated with dignity and fairness. It is, surely, the very least anyone can do.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Fiona Sturges * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eI am profoundly grateful that [this book] exists ... A book such as this one, in which a trans person has the opportunity to speak clearly and compellingly on their own terms, is \u003cb\u003ea vitally needed antidote\u003c\/b\u003e ... One book cannot, of course, outweigh such a continual outpouring of animosity. Nevertheless, as drops in the bucket go, this book is an \u003cb\u003eimportant and weighty \u003c\/b\u003eone. -- Felix Moore * The Observer *\u003cbr\u003eEnter Shon Faye. The journalist and former lawyer might have gathered a following on Twitter for her wry humor, but her first book offers a \u003cb\u003ecold, hard, and, most importantly, convincing \u003c\/b\u003elook into the facts surrounding trans rights both past and present, as well as \u003cb\u003ea moving and impressively comprehensive overview of trans life \u003c\/b\u003ein Britain today. Leavened by Faye's \u003cb\u003esharp, sparkling writing style\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003ci\u003eThe Transgender Issue\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital resource for readers outside of the U.K. to understand just what is happening there in terms of trans rights - and how to bring about a long-overdue change to the conversation. * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eA detailed overview of the systemic violence and discrimination trans people face in Britain today ... [Faye is] sanguine, relaxed, and funny while eloquently delivering complex philosophical arguments which, as she explains them, \u003cb\u003esound so obvious that you wonder why you've never thought of them before\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003ci\u003eThe Transgender Issue\u003c\/i\u003e is fundamentally not a culture-war book. It operates outside the narrow coverage of trans people in the mainstream, and \u003cb\u003elays bare the inarguable facts of being trans\u003c\/b\u003e: that's it's rare, that it's misunderstood, that society makes it dangerous. -- Sarah Manavis * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA welcome contribution to the trans debate\u003c\/b\u003e ... Faye has written \u003cb\u003ea clear and concise analysis\u003c\/b\u003e of the presenting issues for trans people today. -- Stella O'Malley * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eFaye's language is precise and the arguments well evidenced. This will be a challenging book for those lulled by the nonsense that sometimes passes for journalism about trans lives ... I don't recall a work like Shon Faye's that \u003cb\u003etakes the status quo by the lapels and gives it such a shaking.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Christine Burns * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eDraws on wide-ranging research to make her arguments ... \u003cb\u003eFaye is highly intelligent and writes with compassion and clarity \u003c\/b\u003eabout marginalised groups that suffer a lot. -- Christina Patterson * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSets the record straight on a lot of subjects, many of which are hard to misrepresent with the facts in front of you ... Once picked up, the book was \u003cb\u003ehard to set down\u003c\/b\u003e ... The book isn't just about highlighting problems - \u003cb\u003ethere are plenty of solutions offered\u003c\/b\u003e, many of them radical.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Lee Hurley * Vice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Transgender Issue\u003c\/i\u003e, argues this [feminist] inheritance with energy and clarity ... Faye writes well. -- Mary Harrington * UnHerd *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncisive and illuminating\u003c\/b\u003e in addressing myriad aspects of trans life in the UK, without ever being dogmatic. -- Robin Craig * Huck *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn important work of non-fiction that should change the tired conversation we've been having about trans people.\u003c\/b\u003e Not only that, it's a book for anyone who cares about building a fairer and more just society. -- Vic Parsons * Refinery29 *\u003cbr\u003eA passionately reasoned defence ... \u003cb\u003eIf you know what you think about all this, she - Faye - might move you to think again.\u003c\/b\u003e -- James McConnachie * The Times Books of the Year 2021 *\u003cbr\u003eShon Faye has written a book that \u003cb\u003emodels clarity in its writing and its moral vision\u003c\/b\u003e.  Focused on the UK, this book will doubtless have a strong and lasting impact in the world. One learns here how to distinguish between arguments that merit a response and those which should be refused because they are either cruel or stupid. \u003cb\u003eThis is a monumental work and utterly convincing - crystal clear in its understanding of how the world should be.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Judith Butler, Professor, University of California Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Transgender Issue\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ean urgent interrogation \u003c\/b\u003eof the manufactured moral panic which scapegoats and marginalises trans people. \u003cb\u003eWith precision, wit, and clarity\u003c\/b\u003e, Shon Faye exposes how cultural and institutional discrimination against transgender people makes all of us less free. \u003cb\u003eIf you're sick of seeing people's humanity reduced to cannon fodder for the culture war, read this book.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ash Sarkar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book feels like a moment.\u003c\/b\u003e In clear and eloquent writing, Shon Faye expands the discussion around trans history and experience, the huge impact on BAME trans people, and how economic and political inequalities intersect with trans experience. \u003cb\u003eIt's heartfelt but analytical, in-depth and utterly humane\u003c\/b\u003e. 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It is an inspiring call for coalition\u003c\/b\u003e, across the divides of class, race, sexual identity and gender. Shon Faye shows with courage and clarity that the struggle of trans people is the struggle of us all. \u003cb\u003eThis book is a game-changer.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Owen Jones\u003cbr\u003eFrom the very first words of \u003ci\u003eThe Transgender Issue\u003c\/i\u003e, it is clear the reader is in the hands of someone with absolute clarity about the world we live in, and the one we deserve. ... Refusing to water down the radicalism and urgency of her demands, Shon's argument for justice is both \u003cb\u003ea heartfelt outcry against injustice, and an utterly convincing vision for change\u003c\/b\u003e rooted in analysis and research. -- Florence Welch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWriting with astonishing patience, clarity, and ethical force, Shon Faye has gifted us an essential primer for our times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Transgender Issue\u003c\/i\u003e calls us into a much-needed solidarity, and makes the project of constructing and inhabiting a more free and just world for everyone feel \u003cb\u003eurgent, possible, and exhilarating.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Maggie Nelson, author of ON FREEDOM\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003cb\u003eclarity, precision and great humanity\u003c\/b\u003e, Faye definitively draws to a close the harmful debate on trans lives, supporting her findings with iron-clad evidence. \u003cb\u003eTruly the final word on the matter\u003c\/b\u003e, this is a book for anyone who wants our society to be a kinder, fairer, more inclusive one. -- Juno Dawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith extraordinary clarity and intellectual vigour\u003c\/b\u003e, Shon Faye cuts through the concern-trolling, the sly bigotry, and the unserious moral panics that so often characterise the discourse surrounding transgender lives. 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The Valorization Process\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power\u003cbr\u003e2. The Representation of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product\u003cbr\u003e3. Senior's \"Last Hour\"\u003cbr\u003e4. The Surplus Product\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: The Working Day \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Limits of the Working Day\u003cbr\u003e2. The Voracious Appetite for Surplus Labour. Manufacturer and Boyar\u003cbr\u003e3. Branches of English Industry without Legal Limits to Exploitation\u003cbr\u003e4. Day Work and Night Work. The Shift System\u003cbr\u003e5. The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Laws for the Compulsory Extension of the Working Day, from the Middle of the Fourteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century\u003cbr\u003e6. The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Laws for the Compulsory Limitation of Working Hours. The English Factory Legislation of 1833-64\u003cbr\u003e7. The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Impact of the English Factory Legislation on Other Countries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11: The Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR: THE PRODUCTION OF RELATIVE SURPLUS-VALUE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 13: Co-operation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 14: The Division of Labour and Manufacture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Dual Origin of Manufacture\u003cbr\u003e2. The Specialized Worker and His Tools\u003cbr\u003e3. The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture - Heterogeneous and Organic\u003cbr\u003e4. The Division of Labour in Manufacture, and the Division of Labour in Society\u003cbr\u003e5. The Capitalist Character of Manufacture\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 15: Machinery and Large-Scale Industry \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Development of Machinery\u003cbr\u003e2. The Value Transferred by the Machinery to the Product\u003cbr\u003e3. The Most Immediate Effects of Machine Production on the Worker\u003cbr\u003e(a) Appropriation of Supplementary Labour-Power by Capital. The Employment of Women and Children\u003cbr\u003e(b) The Prolongation of the Working Day\u003cbr\u003e(c) Intensification of Labour\u003cbr\u003e4. The Factory\u003cbr\u003e5. The Struggle between Worker and Machine\u003cbr\u003e6. The Compensation Theory, with Regard to the Workers Displaced by Machinery\u003cbr\u003e7. Repulsion and Attraction of Workers through the Development of Machine Production. Crises in the Cotton Industry\u003cbr\u003e8. The Revolutionary Impact of Large-Scale Industry on Manufacture, Handicrafts and Domestic Industry\u003cbr\u003e(a) Overthrow of Co-operation Based on Handicrafts and on the Division of Labour\u003cbr\u003e(b) The Impact of the Factory System on Manufacture and Domestic Industries\u003cbr\u003e(c) Modern Manufacture\u003cbr\u003e(d) Modern Domestic Industry\u003cbr\u003e(e) Transition from Modern Manufacture and Domestic Industry to Large-Scale Industry. The Hastening of this Revolution by the Application of the Factory Acts to those Industries\u003cbr\u003e9. The Health and Education Clauses of the Factory Acts. The General Extension of Factory Legislation in England\u003cbr\u003e10. Large-Scale Industry and Agriculture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FIVE: THE PRODUCTION OF ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE SURPLUS-VALUE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Length of the Working Day and the Intensity of Labour Constant; the Productivity of Labour Variable\u003cbr\u003e2. The Length of the Working Day and the Productivity of Labour Constant; the Intensity of Labour Variable\u003cbr\u003e3. The Productivity and Intensity of Labour Constant; the Length of the Working Day Variable\u003cbr\u003e4. Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productivity and Intensity of Labour\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 18: Different Formulae for the Rate of Surplus-Value \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SIX: WAGES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 19: The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour-Power into Wages\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 20: Time-Wages\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 21: Piece-Wages\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 22: National Differences in Wages\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SEVEN: THE PROCESS OF ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 23: Simple Reproduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 24: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale. The Inversion which Converts the Property Laws of Commodity Production into Laws of Capitalist Appropriation\u003cbr\u003e2. The Political Economists' Erroneous Conception of Reproduction on an Increasing Scale\u003cbr\u003e3. Division of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory\u003cbr\u003e4. The Circumstances which, Independently of the Proportional Division of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue, Determine the Extent of Accumulation, namely, the Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power, the Productivity of Labour, the Growing Difference in Amount between Capital Employed and Capital Consumed, and the Magnitude of the Capital Advanced\u003cbr\u003e5. The So-Called Labour Fund\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 25: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. A Growing Demand for Labour-Power Accompanies Accumulation if the Composition of Capital Remains the Same\u003cbr\u003e2. A Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Occurs in the Course of the Further Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration Accompanying It\u003cbr\u003e3. The Progressive Reduction of a Relative Surpluse Population or Industrial Reserve Army\u003cbr\u003e4. Different Forms of Existence of the Relative Surplus Population. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation\u003cbr\u003e5. Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation\u003cbr\u003e(a) England from 1846 to 1866\u003cbr\u003e(b) The Badly Paid Strata of the British Industrial Working Class\u003cbr\u003e(c) The Nomadic Population\u003cbr\u003e(d) Effect of Crises on the Best Paid Section of the Working Class\u003cbr\u003e(e) The British Agricultural Proletariat\u003cbr\u003e(f) Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART EIGHT: SO-CALLED PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 27: The Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 28: Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated since the End of the Fifteenth Century. The Forcing Down of Wages by Act of Parliament\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 29: The Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 30: Impact of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. The Creation of a Home Market for Industrial Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 31: The Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 32: The Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 33: The Modern Theory of Colonization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix: Results of the Immediate Process of Production \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Ernest Mandel\u003cbr\u003eI. Commodities as the Product of Capital\u003cbr\u003eII. Capitalist Production as the Production of Surplus-Value\u003cbr\u003eIII. Capitalist Production is the Production and Reproduction of the Specifically Capitalist Relations of Production\u003cbr\u003eIV. Isolated Fragments\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuotations in Languages Other than English and German\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Authorities Quoted\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Index\u003cbr\u003eNote on Previous Editions of the Works of Marx and Engels\u003cbr\u003eChronology of Works by Marx and Engels\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732375646551,"sku":"9780140445688","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140445688.jpg?v=1719996611"},{"product_id":"capital-9780140445701","title":"Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnfinished at the time of Marx''s death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Das Kapital strove to combine the theories and concepts of the two previous volumes in order to prove conclusively that capitalism is inherently unworkable as a permanent system for society. Here, Marx asserts controversially that - regardless of the efforts of individual capitalists, public authorities or even generous philanthropists - any market economy is inevitably doomed to endure a series of worsening, explosive crises leading finally to complete collapse. But healso offers an inspirational and compelling prediction: that the end of capitalism will culminate, ultimately, in the birth of a far greater form of society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Ernest Mandel\u003cbr\u003ePreface (Frederick Engels)\u003cbr\u003eBOOK III: THE PROCESS OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION AS A WHOLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SURPLUS-VALUE INTO PROFIT, AND OF THE RATE OF SURPLUS-VALUE INTO THE RATE OF PROFIT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Cost Price and Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: The Rate of Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: The Relationship between Rate of Profit and Rate of Surplus-Value\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: The Effect of the Turnover on the Rate of Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Economy in the Use of Constant Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. General Considerations\u003cbr\u003e2. Saving on the Conditions of Work at the Workers' Expense\u003cbr\u003e3. Economy in the Generation and Transmission of Power, and on Buildings\u003cbr\u003e4. Utilization of the Refuse of Production\u003cbr\u003e5. Economy through Inventions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: The Effect of Changes in Price \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Fluctuations in the Price of Raw Material; Their Direct Effects on the Rate of Profit\u003cbr\u003e2. Revaluation and Devaluation of Capital; Release and Tying-Up of Capital\u003cbr\u003e3. General Illustration: The Cotton Crisis 1861-5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: Supplementary Remarks \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO: THE TRANSFORMATION OF PROFIT INTO AVERAGE PROFIT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Different Compositions of Capital in Different Branches of Production, and the Resulting Variation in Rates of Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit), and Transformation of Commodity Values into Prices of Production\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: The Equalization of the General Rate of Profit through Competition. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11: The Effects of General Fluctuations in Wages on the Prices of Production\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12: Supplementary Remarks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Causes of a Change in the Price of Production\u003cbr\u003e2. The Production Price of Commodities of Average Composition\u003cbr\u003e3. The Capitalist's Grounds for Compensation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE: THE LAW OF THE TENDENTIAL FALL IN THE RATE OF PROFIT \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 13: The Law Itself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 14: Counteracting Factors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. More Intense Exploitation of Labour\u003cbr\u003e2. Reduction of Wages below their Value\u003cbr\u003e3. Cheapening of the Elements of Constant Capital\u003cbr\u003e4. The Relative Surplus Population\u003cbr\u003e5. Foreign Trade\u003cbr\u003e6. The Increase in Share Capital\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 15: Development of the Law's Internal Contradictions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. General Considerations\u003cbr\u003e2. The Conflict between the Extension of Production and Valorization\u003cbr\u003e3. Surplus Capital alongside Surplus Population\u003cbr\u003e4. Supplementary Remarks\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR: THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMMODITY CAPITAL AND MONEY CAPITAL INTO COMMERCIAL CAPITAL AND MONEY-DEALING CAPITAL (MERCHANT'S CAPITAL) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 16: Commercial Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 17: Commercial Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 18: The Turnover of Commercial Capital. Prices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 19. Money-Dealing Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 20: Historical Material on Merchant's Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FIVE: THE DIVISION OF PROFIT INTO INTEREST AND PROFIT OF ENTERPRISE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 21: Interest-Bearing Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 22: Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. \"Natural\" Rate of Interest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 23: Interest and Profit of Enterprise\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 24: Interest-Bearing Capital as the Superficial Form of the Capital Relation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 25: Credit and Fictitious Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 26: Accumulation of Money Capital, and its Influence on the Rate of Interest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 27: The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 28: Means of Circulation and CApital. The Views of Tooke and Fullarton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 29: Banking Capital's Component Parts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 30: Money Capital and Real Capital: I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 31: Money Capital and Real Capital: II (Continuation)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Transformation of Money into Loan Capital\u003cbr\u003e2. Transformation of Capital or Revenue into Money that is Transformed into Loan Capital\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 32: Money Capital and Real Capital: III (Conclusion) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 33: The Means of Circulation under the Credit System\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 34: The Currency Principle and the English Bank Legislation of 1844\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 35: Precious Metal and Rate of Exchange\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Movement of the Gold Reserve\u003cbr\u003e2. The Exchange Rate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 36: Pre-Capitalist Relations \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SIX: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SURPLUS PROFIT INTO GROUND-RENT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 37: Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 38: Differential Rent in General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 39: The First Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent I)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 40: The Second Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent II)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 41: Differential Rent II - First Case: Price of Production Constant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 42: Differential Rent II - Second Case: Price of Production Falling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. With the Productivity of the Extra Capital Investment Remaining Constant\u003cbr\u003e2. A Falling Rate of Productivity for the Extra Capital\u003cbr\u003e3. A Rising Rate of Productivity for the Extra Capital\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 43: Differential Rent II - Third Case: Rising Price of Production. Results \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 44: Differential Rent Even on the Poorest Land Cultivated\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 45: Absolute Ground-Rent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 46: Rent of Buildings. Rent of Mines. Price of Land\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 47: The Genesis of Capitalist Ground-Rent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. Labour Rent\u003cbr\u003e3. Rent in Kind\u003cbr\u003e4. Money Rent\u003cbr\u003e5. Share-Cropping and Small-Scale Peasant Ownership\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SEVEN: THE REVENUES AND THEIR SOURCES \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 48: The Trinity Formula\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 49: On the Analysis of the Production Process\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 50: The Illusion Created by Competition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 51: Relations of Distribution and Relations of Production\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 52: Classes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSupplement and Addendum to Volume 3 of \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e (Frederick Engels) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Law of Value and Rate of Profit\u003cbr\u003e2. 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