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Fourth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: the rest of Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value — chapters 8 to 11. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/timestamps: Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value 00:00 Chapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value 35:31 Section 1: The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power 01:01:04 Section 2: The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product Itself 01:10:06 Section 3: Senior’s “Last Hour” 01:27:59 Section 4: Surplus-Produce Chapter 10: The Working Day 01:30:23 Section 1: The Limits of the Working Day 01:43:38 Section 2: The Greed for Surplus-Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard 02:09:23 Section 3: Branches of English Industry Without Legal Limits to Exploitation 02:49:58 Section 4: Day and Night Work. The Relay System 03:15:48 Section 5: The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working Day from the Middle of the 14th to the End of the 17th Century 03:59:51 Section 6: The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time. English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864 05:00:48 Section 7: The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries 05:17:53 Chapter 11: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Fourth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (librivox) public domain