Value
Theories of value, labor, exchange, price, and surplus.
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Learning
Smith: Division of Labor, Value, and Wages
Module 1 of Capital and Political Economy: reconstruct Smith's account of specialization, exchange, value, and wages before examining the tensions Marx inherits.
Ricardo: Labor, Wages, Profit, and Trade
Module 2 of Capital and Political Economy: reconstruct Ricardo's labor account of value and examine how wages, profit, rent, and trade fit together.
The Commodity, Value, and Social Form
Module 3 of Capital and Political Economy: follow Marx from use value and exchange value to socially necessary labor time and commodity fetishism.
Surplus Value and the Wage Struggle
Week 4 of Marxism Fundamentals: connect value, labor power, surplus value, profit, and the strategic importance and limits of wage struggles.
Capital and Political Economy
Move from the commodity and money through exploitation, accumulation, circulation, competition, crisis, and finance.
Marxist Feminism: Global Accumulation, Value, and the State
Examine the international division of reproductive labor, global care chains, subsistence production in the Global South, value-form critiques, and the capitalist crisis of care.
Marxist Feminism: Social Reproduction Theory
Analyze how capitalism depends upon the unpaid reproduction of labor power, the 1970s domestic labor debate, and the development of unitary social reproduction theory.
Library and reference
Capital, Volume I
Marx's systematic critique of capitalist production, from the commodity and value-form through exploitation, accumulation, and primitive accumulation.
Value, Price and Profit
Marx's compact explanation of value, labor power, surplus value, profit, wages, and the strategic importance and limits of trade-union struggle.
Wage Labour and Capital
A concise introduction to wages, labor power, capital, competition, and the antagonistic relation between wage labor and capital.
Wage Labour and Capital
A concise introduction to wages, labor power, capital, competition, and the antagonistic relation between wage labor and capital.
Value, Price and Profit
Marx's compact explanation of value, labor power, surplus value, profit, wages, and the strategic importance and limits of trade-union struggle.
Capital, Volume I
Marx's systematic critique of capitalist production, from the commodity and value-form through exploitation, accumulation, and primitive accumulation.