马克思的《雇佣劳动与资本》是根据他1847年12月在比利时布鲁塞尔德国工人协会的几次讲演写成,1849年首次发表的。资产阶级的政治家和学者一向把资本家和工人的关系描绘成自由、平等、公平交易的关系,宣扬二者利益完全一致。马克思在这本著作中,针对这种流行的观念,通过分析工资的来源和变动规律,通俗地说明资本家怎样剥削工人,两个阶级的利益如何对立。当时马克思对资产阶级政治经济学的批判刚刚开 Marx’s “Wages of Labor and Capital” was first published in 1849 in the light of his several lectures in December 1847 at the German Workers’ Association in Brussels, Belgium. Bourgeois politicians and scholars have always portrayed the relationship between capitalists and workers as a free, fair and equitable relationship, in the belief that their interests are exactly the same. In this book, Marx analyzes how the capitalists exploit workers and how the interests of the two classes oppose each other by aiming at this popular concept by analyzing the sources and changes of wages. At that time, Marx’s critique of bourgeois political economy was just beginning