Compliance Industrial Complex

This is the first book to examine the growth and phenomenon of a securitized and criminalized compliance society which relies increasingly on intelligence-led and predictive technologies to control future risks, crimes, and security threats. It articulates the emergence of a ‘compliance-industrial complex’ that synthesizes regulatory capitalism and surveillance capitalism to impose new regimes of power and control, as well as new forms of subjectivity subservient to the ‘operating system’ of a pre-crime society. Looking at compliance beyond frameworks of business management, corporate governance, law, and accounting, it looks as it as a social phenomenon, instrumental in the pluralization and privatization of policing, where the private intelligence, private security, and big tech companies are being concentrated at the very core of compliance, and hence, governance of the social. The critical book draws on transversal, rather than interdisciplinary, approaches and integrates disparate perspectives, inspired by works in critical criminology, critical algorithm studies, critical management studies, as well as social anthropology and philosophy.

This study gives a first insight in the functioning of this system and shows that the cooperation in the fight against money laundering is inherently linked to problems of public and private partnership, intrusions of privacy and questions of proportionality

In an era where technological advancements are not just tools but partners in our workspaces, Modern Technologies and Tools Supporting the Development of Industry 5.0 emerges as a seminal guide to understanding and navigating the complexities of the Fifth Industrial Revolution. This book, a collective work of expert authors, delves into the heart of Industry 5.0, exploring how it synergizes human creativity with robotic precision to redefine industrial landscapes. From collaborative robotics to sustainable development, each chapter unfolds layers of knowledge essential for professionals, academics, and students alike. Features • Covers modern technologies including artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Internet of Everything for modernizing Industry 5.0 and the transformative role of collaborative robots in the workplace and how they are changing the dynamics of human labour. • Focuses on technologies mimicking human behaviour and reasoning to solve complex problems and explores the evolving role of human expertise in an increasingly automated world and the competencies needed to thrive in this new era. • Showcases the impact of Industry 5.0 on the environment, and industry commitment to sustainable development by laying a map to understand how Industry 5.0 is steering industries towards sustainable practices, focusing on green supply chains, reverse logistics, and the critical role of internal audits. • Highlights future perspectives such as smart manufacturing and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for Industry 5.0 manufacturing processes and provides insights into the challenges and security concerns as industries prepare to adopt Industry 5.0, offering foresight into its long-term impacts on global markets and societies. • Presents real-time case studies on tools, technologies, architecture, and product outcomes for Industry 5.0. Modern Technologies and Tools Supporting the Development of Industry 5.0 is more than a book; it’s a roadmap for the future, guiding readers through the intricacies of industrial evolution. It is primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of industrial engineering, production engineering, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering.

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.

The world has been bombarded in recent years with images of the luxurious lives and wealth of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats, amassed at the expense of ordinary people. Such images exploit our feelings of injustice, are taken as indicative of moral decay, and inspire a desire to purge our economies of dirty money, objects, and people. But why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art, antiquities, superyachts, and populist politics, this book explores the connection between luxury and corruption, and offers an alternative to the received wisdom of how we tackle corruption.

In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Eisenhower famously referred to the emergence of a "military-industrial complex" so powerful that it threatened to warp America's political institutions and economy. However, the military was not the only part of a blended government workforce that was growing by leaps and bounds. Over the next half century, the true size of the federal government expanded in almost every department and agency as it came to depend on 7-9 million federal, contract, and grant employees to faithfully execute the laws. In The Government-Industrial Complex, public management expert Paul Light not only traces the expansion of the federal government's workforce over the past few decades, but also explains why it has taken the shape that it has. In marked contrast to governments in other wealthy countries, America's relies heavily on contract and grant employees to deliver goods and services even as the number of federal employees has held steady for seventy years. Light traces the rise of this government-industrial complex and asks whether and how the nation can be sure that the right people are in the right jobs to assure maximum performance for the public good. To do this, he offers short histories of the roles of various presidents and the impacts of war and economic crisis on the changing size of government. He also highlights the Trump administration's early strategies on downsizing and deconstructing government. Light emphasizes that achieving the right balance between public and private responsibilities is the key to making government both more efficient and more responsive. Comprehensive and pointed, this is a landmark account of the true nature and scope of national governance in the United States.