Capital, Vol. 1, Reading Schedule

Week 1, Jan. 16            
General Introduction
Preface to the 1867 Edition, pp. 5-8

Week 2, Jan. 23         
Chapter 1 – The Commodity, pp. 13-59

Week 3, Jan. 30            
Chapter 2 – The Exchange Process, pp. 60-68
Chapter 3 – Money, or Commodity Circulation, pp. 69-117

Week 4, Feb. 6           
Chapter 4 – The Transformation of Money into Capital, pp. 121-149
Chapter 5 – The Labor Process and the Valorization Process, pp. 153-173
Chapter 6 – Constant Capital and Variable Capital, pp. 174-184
Chapter 7 – The Rate of Surplus Value, pp. 185-202

Week 5, Feb. 13            
Chapter 8 – The Working Day, pp. 203-272
Chapter 9 – The Rate and Amount of Surplus Value, pp. 273-281

Week 6, Feb. 20            
Chapter 10 – The Concept of Relative Surplus Value, pp. 285-293
Chapter 11 – Cooperation, pp. 294-307
Chapter 12 – The Division of Labor and the Manufacturing System, pp. 308-340

Reading Week

Week 7, Mar. 6
Chapter 13 – Machinery and Large Scale Industry, pp. 341-461

Week 8, Mar. 13          
Chapter 14 – Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value, pp. 465-472
Chapter 15 – The Price of Labor Power and the Magnitude of Surplus-Value Increase and Decrease, pp. 473-483
Chapter 16 – Different Formulas for the Rate of Surplus-Value, pp. 484-487
Chapter 17 – How the Value and Price of Labor-Power are Transformed into Wages, pp. 491-498
Chapter 18 – Time Wages, pp. 499-506
Chapter 19 – Piece Wages, pp. 507-514
Chapter 20 – Variations in Wages from Nation to Nation, pp. 515-517

Week 9, Mar. 20         
Chapter 21 – Simple Reproduction, pp. 521-532
Chapter 22 – How Surplus-Value Is Transformed into Capital, pp. 533-561

Week 10, Mar. 27          
Chapter 23 – The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation, pp. 562-649

Week 11, Apr. 3          
Chapter 24 – The So-Called Original Accumulation, pp. 650-692
Chapter 25 – The Modern Theory of Colonization, pp. 593-701

Week 12, Apr. 10          
Synthesis and Discussion