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Wage Labour and Capital – An Economic Books Reviews

Sunday, October 5, 2008
Wage, Labour and Capital book is written by Marx. It is the initial stage of Marx writing related to economy when he wrote the book. After that he wrote many books but at last Das Capital was most famous in the economic book.

In the introductions of the book Fredric Engles writes,
“...Therefore, I say to the reader at once: this pamphlet is not as Marx wrote it in 1849, but approximately as Marx would have written it in 1891. Moreover, so many copies of the original text are in circulation, that these will suffice until I can publish it again unaltered in a complete edition of Marx’s works, to appear at some future time...”


About the wage and money relation Marx explain,
“...The exchange value of a commodity estimated in money is called its price. Wages therefore are only a special name for the price of labour-power, and are usually called the price of labour; it is the special name for the price of this peculiar commodity, which has no other repository than human flesh and blood...”


You can read whole book from here: Wage Labour and Capital

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