1st Edition

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

By Sidney Dekker Copyright 2021
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.