{"product_id":"9789085550808","title":"The Maintenance Crew for the Human Machinery","description":"The book, written as a doctoral thesis, examines the development of the personnel function in labour organisations. Starting from a history of personnel management in the Netherlands during the second half of the 20th century, it analyses the structural transformation in the societal-economic environment from which originate far-reaching changes in employee relations. The transformation from the post-war model of guided capitalism towards its neo-liberal variety has serious consequences for intra-organisational power relations which result in a one-sided articulation of interests. This erodes the moral fabric of the labour organisation as a social institution. In this context special attention is paid to the wide-spread erosion of corporate ethics in the 21st century. The intensification of the labour process - a consistent phenomenon in industrial capitalism - has got a new impulse, due to the lack of countervailing power within an eroding system of labour relations as well as to superior production techniques and technologies. These tendencies have a deteriorating effect on the substance of the personnel discipline, ending up in a loss of function.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47754237509873,"sku":"9789085550808","price":72.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9789085550808_p0.jpg?v=1769881485","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789085550808","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}