The book assembles previously published material, but I have done a lot of adding, subtracting, and revising, to eliminate repetition, to establish connections, and to bring the end-product closer to my present thinking than some of the original articles are. People contrast mere collections of essays with real books: in the terms of that distinction, this book is more real than some, but it is not completely real. It has a thematic unity which, I hope, compensates for occasional lapses of continuity in the passage from one chapter to another.

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Part I: Historical MaterialismmExposition and Defence

 1 Forces and Relations of Production

 2 Base and Superstructure

 3 Being, Consciousness, and Roles

 4 Historical Inevitability and Revolutionary Agency

 5 Human Nature and Social Change in the Marxist Conception of History

Part II: Historical Materialism--Criticism and Revision

 6 Fettering

 7 On an Argument for Historical Materialism

 8 Reconsidering Historical Materialism

 9 Restricted and Inclusive Historical Materialism

Part III: Capitalism, Labour and Freedom

 10 The Dialectic of Labour in Marx

 11 The Labour Theory of Value and the Concept of Exploitation

 12 Are Disadvantaged Workers who Take Hazardous Jobs Forced to Take Hazardous Jobs ？

 13 The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom

 14 Freedom, Justice, and Capitalism

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