title: Capital: An Abridged Edition (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Karl Marx 
description: <br /><strong>David McLellan</strong> is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Kent.<br />
zlib_text: boundary 2 43:1 (2016) DOI 10.1215/01903659- 3340709 © 2016 by Duke University Press
  Dialect and Dialectic in “The Working Day” of Marx’s Capital
  Rosalind C. Morris
  I have always been moved by “The Working Day” chapter of Marx’s 
  Capital (volume 1).1 Above all others, it holds me captive with its seam-
  less movement between analytic and descriptive prose, its deft negotiation 
  of argument and polemic. The caustic wit and searing indictments of the 
  text are counterbalanced with unrelenting empiricism to convince readers 
  of the labor theory of value. Much has been done to displace that theory 
  over the last three decades, and consequently, the power of the text as a 
  model of dialectical method has been increasingly overlooked. This is a 
  grave loss, for the chapter is as aesthetically masterful as it is analytically 
  astute. Moreover, and despite being overshadowed by the spectral and 
  specular melodrama of the chapter on the fetish- character of commodities, 
  “The Working Day” is par