1) There is at least one marxist accountant (in the sense of discussing
the technical content of accounting theory from a marxist perspective,
as opposed to sociology of the accounting profession, or what might be
called "social relations of accounting):
This is Rob Bryer, who is at Warwick Business School; point your browser
at:
www.wbs.warwick.ac.uk
and you should be able to navigate to his contact details and a list of
recent publications
2) The journals "Critical Perspectives on Accounting" and "Accounting
Organizations and Society" publish material which should interest ope-l
members
3) The following also looks of interest:
Tony Tinker and Marilyn Niemark (1987) "The role of annual reports in
gender and class contradictions at General Motors, 1917-76", Accounting
Organizations and Society, pages 71-88
Tinker is described as an "aggressively marxist accounting scholar" in
David Chioni Moore's article on feminist accounting in Mirowski's book
"Natural images in economic thought"
4) There is a fascinating compendium of material on the history of
accounting and industrialisation, capital's mutually-interdependent
drives for calculation and control, and on the uses of accounting in
justifying the ways of capital to mankind, in
T. Colwyn Jones (1995) "Accounting and the enterprise: a social
analysis" (Routledge)
Julian Wells