On new terrain: how capital is reshaping the battleground of class war

Description

The roots of change -- Precarious work: growth but less than you thought -- Growing diversity in the midst of change -- Competition and the concentration and centralization of capital in the United States -- Logistics: capital's supply chain gang -- The coming upsurge? -- Capital and the return to the states -- Prisoners of the American scheme -- The Democratic Party cul-de-sac -- Electoral politics from a socialist perspective.;Analyzes how recent changes in capitalism have altered both the composition of the working class and the economic and political ground on which it struggles. He challenges conventional wisdom about a disappearing working class and the inevitability of a two-party political structure as the only framework for struggle. Through in-depth study of the economic and political shifts at the top of society, Moody shows how recent developments in capitalist production impact the working class and its power to resist the status quo. He argues that this transformed industrial terrain offers new possibilities for organization in the workplace and opens doors for grassroots, independent political action strengthened by reemerging labor and social movements. --From publisher description.