Compliance Capitalism: How Free Markets Have Led to Unfree, Overregulated Workers

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Sidney Dekker

Compliance Capitalism

How Free Markets Have Led to Unfree, Overregulated Workers

Sidney Dekker

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Routledge
02 August 2021

Risk assessment; Production & quality control management; Occupational & industrial health & safety; The environment; Fire protection & safety

Series: The Business, Management and Safety Effects of Neoliberalism

In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever—and still, things can go spectacularly wrong.

Much has been privatized and deregulated, giving us what is sometimes known as ‘new public management,’ driven by neoliberal, market-favoring policies. But, paradoxically, we typically have more rules today, not fewer. It’s not the government: it’s us. This book is the first of a three-part series on the effects of ‘neoliberalism,’ which promotes the role of the private sector in the economy. Compliance Capitalism examines what aspects of the compliance economy, what mechanisms of bureaucratization, are directly linked to us having given free markets a greater reign over our political economy. The book steps through them, picking up the evidence and levers for change along the way.

Dekker’s work has always challenged readers to embrace more humane, empowering ways to think about work and its quality and safety. In Compliance Capitalism, Dekker extends his reach once again, writing for all managers, board members, organization leaders, consultants, practitioners, researchers, lecturers, students, and investigators curious to understand the genuine nature of organizational and safety performance.

By: Sidney Dekker
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032012360
ISBN 10: 1032012366
Series: The Business, Management and Safety Effects of Neoliberalism
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 02 August 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Adult education , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 The freedom to make more rules; 2 Free markets in theory; intensive managerial control in practice; 3 The macro: sell out and pull out; 4 The meso: mistrust and monitor; 5 The micro: audit and cash in; 6 How could governments have missed this?; 7 A retreat into rules

Sidney Dekker is Professor and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University in the Netherlands. He has been flying the Boeing 737 for an airline on the side. Sidney is a bestselling author of, most recently: Foundations of Safety Science; The Safety Anarchist; The End of Heaven; Just Culture; Safety Differently; The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’; Second Victim; Drift into Failure; and Patient Safety. More about him is available at sidneydekker.com.