[specialist]

Very interesting observation.

I had always seen the fight as between capital and labor. But then again, I'm an elitist white urbanite.

The book Democracy at Work (linked upthread) attempts to find a third way. Worker owned democratically run organizations. My personal interest comes from when I used democratic decision making on my own teams, to great effect. Alas, we didn't control the capital, so our efforts had limited broader success.