Wage-Labour and Capital

Written by Karl Marx

Narrated by LibriVox Community

Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central threories 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. 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).

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

Karl Marx

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher, historian, political theorist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia, he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Jena in Germany and became an ardent follower of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Marx was already producing political and social philosophic works when he met Friedrich Engels in Paris in 1844. The two became lifelong colleagues and soon collaborated on "The Communist Manifesto," which they published in London in 1848. Expelled from Belgium and Germany, Marx moved to London in 1849 where he continued organizing workers and produced (among other works) the foundational political document Das Kapital. A hugely influential and important political philosopher and social theorist, Marx died stateless in 1883 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.

Reviews for Wage-Labour and Capital

[Shawn · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amazing how the same falises were uttered by the capitalists in 1848 as today. More amazing is people still believe it, though Marx proved them wrong 174 years ago!

[Jeffrey Hilaire · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Didn’t really get too much out of it maybe I need to listen again.

[Paul Himmelman · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The guy reading has a nice voice and unlike some other Librivox I have struggled with, it was recorded well. Oh, and this is very relevant material if you want to know why the minimum wage stagnates among other things.