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
Reviews in the Financial Times, The Guardian and The Atlantic.
Outreach to low wage worker organizers and Fight for Fifteen
campaigns.
Promotion in conjunction with the author speaking at multiple
academic and labor conferences in spring of 2018.
Pre-order campaign at Historical Materialism conference in spring
2017 where author is featured speaker.
Excerpts and featured advertising in both union newsletters and
LaborNotes publications.
Featured excerpts in Jacobin magazine, New Politics and The
Progressive, both online and in print.
Author is available for radio interviews.
Outreach to unions to order books to use for member training
opportunities.
Propose author as a key note speaker or workshop leader at
LaborNotes conference in April, 2018.
Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and the author of several books on US labor. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment of the University of Westminster in London, and a member of the National Union of Journalists.
“[A] masterful and much-needed book.” —Solidarity
"Kim Moody's provocative work 'On New Terrain' immediately shakes
the reader by offering a hard hitting, concrete and sober analysis
of the transformation of both the capitalist and working classes of
the USA. His analysis lays the foundation for the development of
theory to situate a 21st century working class reawakening. Moody
offers the reader a pole of opinion which helps to advance a badly
needed debate that has profound implications for the creation of a
movement for socialism."
-Bill Fletcher, Jr., coauthor of "Solidarity Divided"; author of
"'They're Bankrupting Us' - And Twenty Other Myths about
Unions"
"Moody's "new terrain" is not a world, as most would have it,
where globalization has left U.S. workers helpless. It shows how
corporations' inevitable push for profits actually opens up new
vulnerabilities—if only unions can get their act together. He
explodes myths about the gig economy and the potential to transform
the Democratic Party. Readers will put the book down convinced that
there is a way for workers to win."
-Jane Slaughter, LaborNotes
"Kim Moody, whose books and articles have for more than forty years
provided essential analysis and strategy for the labor left,
continues this indispensable work in his new book, On New Terrain:
How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War. Arguing
that capital has created a new and more advantageous terrain for
working class struggle, he suggests that capital is more
vulnerable, but the labor and social movements must be able to make
the most of the situation. And Moody suggests how they might do so.
The working class, he argues, also has the potential to create its
own political force, but only if it can avoid the cul-de-sac of the
Democratic Party. Every labor activist and all of those who want to
build a powerful left in America will want to get this book."
– Dan La Botz, New Politics
“This is a detailed and provocative study of how capital has
changed since the 1980s and its effects on the working class and
political parties in the USA and across the world. It rejects the
notion that we live in a post-capitalist world or that the ‘gig
economy’ dominates industrial relations. Instead, it presents a
classical Marxist analysis that painstakingly shows how the
composition of the ‘core working class’ has changed in its
occupational, industrial and ethno/racial composition under
changing business practices since the 1980s.” –Scottish Left
Review
“Kim Moody, has been one most of the most experienced working-class
organisers in the US over the past few decades. His latest book On
New Terrain seeks to rethink both our understanding of capitalism
today, and how the workers can respond.” –Monthly Review
“Veteran US activist and author, Kim Moody, offers a timely
antidote to despair about the potential of America’s working class
to play a central role both in resisting the Trump agenda and the
neo-liberal brand of capitalism that paved ‘The Donald’s’ path to
the White House.” –Labour Briefing
“Moody’s argument not only insists the working class still exists
but that its structural capacity to organise and paralyse
production has grown as the restructuring and consolidation of
capital has created a “new terrain” for the class struggle. Such a
case is highly welcome to socialists who argue that workers possess
the collective power to not just challenge capital but to break
it.” –Socialist Review
“The best recent work on the history and the contemporary promise
of the move from Ford to Tesco.” –Red Pepper
“Despite the election of Trump and the rise of the alt-right, the
huge support for Bernie Sander’s campaign for the 2016 Democratic
Presidential nomination, the Black Lives Matter movement and the
wave of teachers’ strikes show that there is plenty of anger among
US workers. Moody’s welcome and important book shows that they
still have the power to resist and how socialists can build a mass
movement of opposition to neoliberalism in its heartland.”
–International Socialism Journal
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