An insightful and timely analysis of how global economic restructuring will impact workers' struggles in the US. On New Terrain 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.
Part I: Re-Making of the US Working Class
Chapter 1 The Roots of Change
Chapter 2 How Precarious is Work?
Chapter 3 A More Diverse Working Class
Part II: The Changing Terrain of Class Struggle
Chapter 4 Consolidation of Capital
Chapter 5 Capital's Supply Chain Gang
Chapter 6 The Next Upsurge?
Part III: The Changed Political Terrain
Chapter 7 Capital and The Rise of State Politics
Chapter 8 Prisoners of the American Scheme
Chapter 9 The Democratic Party Cul de Sac
Chapter 10 Electoral Politics from a Socialist Perspective
Conclusion: Pulling the Analysis Together
