The Work Day

The Capitalist has bought the labour-power at its day-rate. To him its use-value belongs during one working day. He has thus acquired the right to make the labour work for him during the day. But what is a working day?

Capitalist production only then really begins, as we have already seen, when each individual capital employs simultaneously a comparatively large number of labours; when consequently the labour-process is carried on an extensive scale and yields, relatively, large quantities of products

The First Edition Arrives...

At first sight a commodity presented itself to us as a complex of two things .. Use-value and exchange-value..later on we saw that labour has the same two fold nature....