John E. Roemer, one of the founders of analytical Marxism, draws on contemporary mathematical economics to put forward a refined extension of the Marxian theory of exploitation, labour value and class.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Labor Value; Chapter 2 Prices; Chapter 3 Exploitation and Profits; Chapter 4 The Transformation Problem; Chapter 5 Simple Commodity Production; Chapter 6 Classes; Chapter 7 The Class Exploitation Correspondence; Chapter 8 Why be Interested in Exploitation?; Chapter 9 Exploitation as Inequality of Assets; Chapter 10 Equality of Opportunity in Alienable Assets; Chapter 11 A Further Step;