1. The essence of the capitalist mode of production in comparison with other modes of production historically preceding it.

2. Similarity in the existence of class oppression and differences in the forms and conditions of class struggle.

3. The struggle of the worker with the capitalist over the length of the working day. Conditions of the sale of the commodity "labour-power." The production of absolute and relative surplus-value.

4. The "normal" conditions of consumption of the commodity "labour-power" are determined by the struggle of the worker with the capitalist.

5. Strike struggles, trade unions, and factory legislation in the history of the struggle for the reduction of the working day.

6. Some conclusions from a half-century period of modern history (19th–20th centuries) in the matter of reducing the working day. Kautsky's "Summary"{149}. The insignificance of "social progress."

Written before January 27 (February 9), 1911.

Published in 1911 in Paris on a hectograph as a leaflet issued by the Organizational Commission of the Courses on the Social Sciences.

Printed according to the text of the leaflet.