The most thorough, original and convincing investigations of the concept of abstract labor. Preface, The Basic Model and the Commodity Form, The Value-Form, The Impossible Equation, The Value Relation, The Problem of Transitivity, Money and the Price Form, The Structure of Money, The Quantity and Circulation of Money, Concrete Labor and the Use-Structure, Abstract Labor and the Money Relation, Abstract Labor: A Simple Example, General Derivation of the Analytic, Concept of Abstract Labor, The Exchange Curve, The Value Structure of Production, Critique of Classical and Contemporary Labor, Theory of Value, The Special Commodity Labor-Power, Surplus-Value and the Reproduction Curve, The Standard Reduction of Labor, The System of Prices of Production with Heterogeneous Labor, Definition and Properties of the Standard Reduction, Significance of t5he Standard Reduction, Mathematical Appendix, Non-Negative Matrices, Cone Relations, References, Bibliography.