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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Contents
Introduction: The Need for a Theory of Capitalist Regulation
Part One: The Transformations of the Wage Relation: The Laws of Capital Accumulation
1. The Production of Capital
I. The Creation and Accumulation of Surplus-Value
1. Abstract Labour and the General Equivalent
2. Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
3. Productivity of Labour and Relative Surplus-Value
4. Accumulation of Capital and Growth in Social Labour-Power
II. An Overview of Capital Accumulation in the United States
1. General Conditions of Development of the Forces of Production
2. General Tendencies in the Accumulation of Productive Capital
2. Transformations in the Labour Process
I. The Mechanization of Labour
1. Principles of Taylorism
2. Taylorism superseded by Fordism
3. The Problems Posed by Automation in the Labour Process: Neo-Fordism
II. The Struggle to Establish a Normal Working Day and the Formation of the Trade-Union Movement
III. Forms of Wage and Labour Process
1. Time Wages and the Working Day
2. Piecework and the Stimulation of Output
3. The Influence of the Collectivization of Work on Forms of Wages
3. The Transformation of the Wage–Earners’ Conditions of Life
I. The Capitalist Production of the Mode of Consumption
1. The Formation and Evolution of a Norm of Social Consumption
2. The Factors that Differentiate the Wage-Earning Class
II. The Effects of the Socialization of Consumption on Changing Forms of Wages
III. The Effects of the Socialization of Consumption on the Long-Run Movement of Wages
1. The Canalization of Economic Class Struggle by Collective Bargaining
2. The Determination of the Nominal Reference Wage in the United States and the Long-Run Movement of Wages
Part Two: The Transformations of Inter-capitalist Relations: The Laws of Competition
4. The Concentration and Centralization of Capital
I. The Definition of Concentration and its Determinants
1. The Concentration and Centralization of Industrial Capital
2. The Influence of Financial Conditions: Waves of Mergers
II. The Foundations of Financial Centralization
1. Financial Centralization through the Financing of Fixed Capital
2. Financial Centralization through the Transformation of the Mode of Consumption
3. Financial Centralization through Public Expenditure
III. The Forms of Centralization of Capital: The Giant Corporation and the Financial Group
1. The Evolution of Modes of Corporate Organization
2. Planning and Managerial Control
3. The Predominance of Proprietary Control: Financial Groups
5. General Rate of Profit and Competition Among Capitals
I. The Conditions of Existence of a General Rate of Profit
1. The Theoretical Status of Prices
2. The Expanded Reproduction of Social Capital
II. The Competition of Individual Capitals on the Basis of the General Rate of Profit
1. The Modalities of the Division of Capital into Fractions
2. The Struggle Between Capitals in the Transformation of Norms of Production and Exchange
3. Production Prices and Fluctuations in Market Prices
III. The Formation of Prices in the Movement of Centralization of Capital
1. The Role of Surplus Profit under Full and Monopolistic Competition
2. The Factors that Differentiate Rates of Profit
3. New Modalities of Devalorization: Planned Obsolescence and Accelerated Amortization
4. Administered Prices in the United States
6. Monetary System, Credit and Crises
I. The Development of Credit and the Organization of the Monetary System
1. The General Attributes of Money: the Significance of the Monetary Constraint
2. The Capitalist Attributes of Money: the Formation of a National Money
II. Financial Crises as Necessary Aspects of Capitalist Regulation
1. The Over-Accumulation of Capital
2. The Process of Inflation
General Conclusion
Postface to the New Edition: Capitalism at the Turn of the Century: Regulation Theory and the Challenge of Social Change
Index
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