CHAPTER 10: THE WORKING DAY

Section 1: What determines the length of the working day, according to Marx's theory?

What determines the length of the working day, according to neo classical (micro) theory? (Consult your textbooks if necessary.)

Section 5: What was the nature of the English laws governing the length of the working day prior to 1700?

Section 6: What was the nature of the English laws governing the length of the working day
after 1830?

Section 7: What was the nature of the laws governing the length of the working day in other countries?

What do you know about the history of the laws governing the length of the working day in the U.S. and other countries?

CHAPTER 11: THE RATE AND MASS OF SURPLUS-VALUE

1. What are the three laws derived by Marx in this chapter?

2. In what sense does Marx's third law “contradict all experience based on immediate experiences”?

3. In what sense in the relation between the means of production and labor “inverted” in capitalist production? (This is a further development of Marx’s theme of the fetishism of commodities)