I like the premise. The conclusion, not so much.

At the end of the day, everyone bargains with everyone. In labor-intensive industry, labor is capital's chief bargaining partner and, therefore, its chief political adversary. (Politics is just collective bargaining continued by other means.) But the consumers have always been there, voting with their feet so to speak. As labor fades, consumerism must take its place as the principal check on capital. (Communization has nothing to offer; it's just resentment run amok.)

Consumers have available all of the tools that labor had, only with different names. A boycott is just a consumer strike.

All regulation of business essentially bars certain forms of competition. In the twentieth century, we passed laws barring companies from competing by employing low-wage children, or by working people seven days a week or in locked sweat shops. Consumers paid the lower prices that nasty labor practices allowed, but they didn't oppose laws that raised those prices by protecting workers, because workers and consumers were overlapping constituencies. But consumers also pushed legislation as consumers, to require protection from bad products where disorganized market forces couldn't get the job done.

There is no meaningful distinction between a democratic government and "the market." When the people assemble in Congress to rein in capitalist excesses, I say "Laissez-faire" - let the people vote whatever action they want and let the resulting commercial consequences - the "market" - reveal whether they got it right. As one wag put. regulation comes in two flavors: over and under. But the pendulum swings around a sustainable center.

Refusal to work is not an option, because things will need to be done by people until they don't, at which point there will be no demand for work, and the supply won't matter. In the meantime, we do need to find a way to feed the supernumeraries. That problem, however, does not require any change in the organization of production that those in charge of production are not already implementing.