Karl Marx’s Wage-Labor and Capital (Lohnarbeit und Kapital) was first delivered as a lecture to workers in 1847 and first published in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in 1849. 1885 saw its first English translation.

Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx. Pocket Library of Socialism No. 7. Charles H. Kerr Publishers, Chicago. 1911.

Contents: Preliminary, What are wages?, By what is the price of a commodity determined?, By what are wages determined?, The nature and growth of capital, Relation of wage-labor to capital, The general law that determines the rise and fall of wages and profit, The interests of capital and wage-labor are diametrically opposed, Effect of capitalist competition on the capitalist class middle class and working class. 53 pages.

The Charles H. Kerr publishing house was responsible for some of the earliest translations and editions of Marx, Engels, and other leaders of the socialist movement in the United States. Publisher of the Socialist Party aligned International Socialist Review, the Charles H Kerr Co. was an exponent of the Party’s left wing and the most important left publisher of the pre-Communist US workers movement. The Proletarian Party took over the publishing house until its disbandment in the early 1970s. It remains a left wing publisher today.

PDF of original pamphlet: http://cfss.indstate.edu/debspams/m392w345_1899.pdf