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machinery chapter good, theories of relative and surplus value good too

Chapter on cooperation.

Fav quote: "The work of directing, superintending and adjusting becomes one of the functions of capital, from the moment that the labour under capital's control becomes cooperative."

Great chapters on relative and absolute surplus value.

Favourite quote: "The objective of the development of the productivity of labour within the context of capitalist production is the shortening of that part of the working day in which the worker must work for himself, and the lengthening, thereby, of the other part of the day, in which he is free to work for nothing for the capitalist." Pg. 438

Chapter on the working day some of the most important so far, and contains some of Marx's strongest moral indictments of capitalism.

Favourite quote: "Labour in a white skin cannot emancipate itself where it is branded in a black skin." Pg. 414

The working day chapter is vital reading

One of the best 21st century Marxist theory books, hands down.