Lecture 7 Part IV, Chapters 12-14 Relative Surplus Value “The Production of Absolute Surplus Value” dealt with the prolongation of the working day. “The Production of Relative Surplus Value” describes ...

Part V It is important to note that this Part, entitled “The Production of Absolute and of Relative Surplus Value,” is not a mere summation of “The Production of Absolute Surplus Value” and “The ...

But it was the extraction of ‘relative surplus value’ – in a word, capital -ism – that ultimately and essentially triggered the Industrial Revolution.