The production of capital -- Transformations in the labour process -- The transformations of the wage-earners' conditions of life -- The concentration and centralization of capital -- General rate of profit and competition among capitals -- Monetary system, credit and crises

As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to...