Wage-Labour and Capital; Marx, 1847/1891 — Reference points #4

Audio of "Wage Labour and Capital", by Karl Marx, first delivered as a speech in 1847, but edited and published in 1891. The 1891 version, reproduced here, is better. Read this online at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ or as a PDF https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/wage-labour-capital.pdf See the article on it here: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-05-26/internationalism-capital-social-relation And discussion points: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/discussion-points-educationals-wage-labour-and-capital Chapter contents and approximate timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 22:17 Chapter 1 — Preliminary 26:27 Chapter 2 — What are wages? 36:25 Chapter 3 — By what is the price of a commodity determined? 47:27 Chapter 4 — By what are wages determined? 50:57 Chapter 5 — The nature and growth of capital 57:54 Chapter 6 — Relation of wage-labour to capital 1:09:00 Chapter 7 — The general law that determines the rise and fall of wages and profit 1:15:32 Chapter 8 — The interests of capital and wage-labour are diametrically opposed 1:24:27 Chapter 9 — Effect of capitalist competition on the capitalist class, middle class and working class #4 from Marxist points of reference: a reading list https://workersliberty.org/marxist-points-reference-reading-list (#3 will be uploaded later) Playlist of recordings from that list here https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Audiobook (and image) public domain from librivox; music public domain. Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio