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Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis attempts to answer the question: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?
“ . . . perceptive and rigorous.” — David Montgomery, The Nation
“ . . . a superb documentation of the new economic and political forces ranged against us on both sides of the Atlantic.” — Lee Bridges, Race and Class
“ . . . brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.” — Scott Malcomson, Village Voice Literary Supplement
Mike Davis is author of the highly acclaimed City of Quartz and the best-selling Ecology of Fear. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. His Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums are also available from Verso. His Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb is forthcoming.
August 1999
Haymarket Series
320 pages
Paper
ISBN-13: 978 1 85984 248 5
US$20 / £13 / CAN$28
